Margarita

Borrowed from the Latin and Spanish Margarita (“Margaret”).

Margarita (plural Margaritas)

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1874 December 26, Florence Marryat, “Fighting the Air”, in The Penny Despatch […], New Series, volume II, number 30, →OCLC, chapter XVI (Laurence Fane Is Ruined), page 474, column 1:

     “I didn’t think you loved me so much as this, my Margarita!” he said, in a broken voice. She did not answer, but she clung to him as a child clings to its mother, and the end was, they remained in town together. It seemed as though Fate interposed to prevent the two Margaritas meeting again.

From Spanish margarita.

Margarita (countable and uncountable, plural Margaritas)

1. Alternative letter-case form of margarita.
   • 2008, Rodge Glass, “A Postcard with a Picture of Three Bare Tanned Backsides Baking Under a Foreign Sun on One Side, and Some Very Small, Very Neat Handwriting on the Other”, in Hope for Newborns, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 207:

     Anyway, hope you don’t get this coz you’re off somewhere cool, sipping Margarita and getting over yourself.

   • 2009 April 10, “A Shot in the Dark”, in Louis Black, editor, The Austin Chronicle, volume 28, number 32, Austin, Tex.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119, column 1:

     You: Gray hair, 50-ish, dark red button-up shirt, black pants, sipping Margarita alone at table.

   • 2019, B[everley] E. Jones, “Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona”, in Wilderness, London: Constable, published 2020, →ISBN, page 52:

     Sipping salty Margaritas I’d finally started to feel as if we’d lived through something terrible and world-altering but ridden it out, survived.

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1210. From Latin Margarita, ultimately from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs). Cognate to English Margaret.

Margarita f

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek

• Grēta, Grieta, Margita, Margrieta, Marita, Megija, Meta, Rita

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Margarita was the only given name of 3702 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Margarita f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret

• IPA^(key): /maɾɡaˈɾita/ [maɾ.ɣ̞aˈɾi.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: Mar‧ga‧ri‧ta

Margarita f

1. a female given name meaning “Daisy”, equivalent to English Margaret

• → English: Margarita

Margarita ?

1. Margarita (a town, a municipality of Bolívar department, Colombia)