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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)