About Ada
Could ADA not be a short for ADELAIDE? In ancient Greece there was an exact name, ADA, she was the daughter of EkAtomnos of Karia.
("Thesaurus of Greek Names", Ares Diamantes, 17.800 names).The LGPN ("Lexicon of the Greek Personal Names", over 28.000 names, www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk),mentions 15 different people with the name ADA in the ancient Greek onomatology.
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My name book says it means 'beautiful' in Hebrew, Adah can mean 'noble' in Latin, and Adara is the closest Greek name I can find and it means 'loveliness'
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No doubt, but we are talking about ADA here, which it was written exactly like that in ancient Greek.
Pls see: www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk by the British academy.
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