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Quiteria Franco is a Venezuelan LGBT activist and researcher. Since 2014, she has been General Coordinator of Affirmative Action of Venezuela (UNAF) and of the LGBTI Network of Venezuela. She has been part of the Civil Society Advisory Group of UN Women in Latin America and the Caribbean since January 2018.
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Usages: Spanish, Aragonese, Galician, Gascon, History (Ecclesiastical)
Meaning: Possibly a Latinized form of Kythereia, perhaps influenced by Latin quietus "calm, quiet". Saint Quiteria was a semi-legendary Iberian martyr of the 5th century. Honoured by both Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy on May 22, she is a patron against rabies.
The Occitan Wikipedia gives "Quitéria" as the Aragonese form (https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quit%C3%A8ira), but the Aragonese Wikipedia has it as "Quiteria" (https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Quiteria).
http://dmnes.org/name/Quiteria
https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_nomes_femininos_en_galego#H
http://www.ige.eu/igebdt/esq.jsp?idioma=gl&ruta=onomast/nomes.jsp
https://ieo-oc.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=300 --- Source: Institut d'Estudis Occitans
Spain
Catalan
● 1510 Quiteria valencia1510 3500
Spanish
● 1576 Quiteria Catalogo-5.2 3877
Cite as: S.L. Uckelman. "Quiteria". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2016, no. 2. http://dmnes.org/2016/2/name/Quiteria.
The Portuguese form of this name was also borne by Maria Quitéria (1792–1853), a Brazilian woman who served in the Brazilian War of Independence and is considered to be the "Brazilian Joan of Arc".
(Information from name #23176 originally submitted by user bananarama)
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Meaning: Possibly a Latinized form of Kythereia, perhaps influenced by Latin quietus "calm, quiet". Saint Quiteria was a semi-legendary Iberian martyr of the 5th century. Honoured by both Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy on May 22, she is a patron against rabies.
The Occitan Wikipedia gives "Quitéria" as the Aragonese form (https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quit%C3%A8ira), but the Aragonese Wikipedia has it as "Quiteria" (https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Quiteria).
http://dmnes.org/name/Quiteria
https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_nomes_femininos_en_galego#H
http://www.ige.eu/igebdt/esq.jsp?idioma=gl&ruta=onomast/nomes.jsp
https://ieo-oc.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=300 --- Source: Institut d'Estudis Occitans
Spain
Catalan
● 1510 Quiteria valencia1510 3500
Spanish
● 1576 Quiteria Catalogo-5.2 3877
Cite as: S.L. Uckelman. "Quiteria". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2016, no. 2. http://dmnes.org/2016/2/name/Quiteria.
The Portuguese form of this name was also borne by Maria Quitéria (1792–1853), a Brazilian woman who served in the Brazilian War of Independence and is considered to be the "Brazilian Joan of Arc".
(Information from name #23176 originally submitted by user bananarama)
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