lauretta

/ˌləˈɹɛtə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English

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Meaning

name

"Lauretta, ay, you would have her called so; but for my part I never knew any good come of giving girls these heathen Christian names; if you had called her Deborah, or Tabitha, or Ruth, or Rebecca, or Joan, nothing of this had ever happened; but I always knew Lauretta was a runaway name."

An Italian pet form of Laura; first introduced into English as the name of one of the narrators in the Decameron.

Loretta (alternative)

loretta

loretta vendetta henrietta marietta rosetta mehta betta etta beretta panetta ceta operetta

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How do you pronounce lauretta?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌləˈɹɛtə/.

What does lauretta mean?

A female given name from Latin.

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