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Name Loretta

Origin: From a Latin word for laurel

Gender: female

Languages of use: English

Asteroid: 1939 Loretta, discovered 1974


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Loretta is a member of the name group Laurence/Laura:

Language of origin: Latin

Info, male:

from the ancient Roman cognomen Laurentius, which means the one from Laurentum, with Laurentum a city in Italy

later the name was assumed to derive from laurus (laurel) and to mean the one crowned with laurel with the crown made of laurel as the symbol of victory

Words: laurus = the laurel  Latin

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