Rita

Revision History

Date	Editor	Change Summary
4/23/2024, 9:35 PM	Mike C	update #115
4/5/2022, 10:13 PM	Mike C	update #112
4/25/2021, 10:07 PM	Mike C	update #110
11/20/2020, 10:42 PM	Mike C	update #109
5/29/2020, 9:30 PM	Mike C	update #108
11/16/2019, 11:04 AM	Mike C	update #105
2/28/2019, 2:08 PM	Mike C	update #102
7/2/2017, 10:39 PM	Mike C	update #95
7/27/2015, 11:23 PM	Mike C	update #90
1/25/2013, 11:59 PM	Mike C	update #85
2/12/2007, 1:03 AM	Mike C	earliest recorded revision

Gender Feminine

Usage Italian, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latvian, Lithuanian

Pronounced Pron. /ˈriː.ta/(Italian) /ˈɹit.ə/(English) /ˈʁiː.ta/(German) /ˈri.tɒ/(Hungarian) /ˈri.ta/(Spanish) /rʲɪ.ˈtɐ/(Lithuanian)

Meaning & History

Short form of Margherita and other names ending in rita. Saint Rita (born Margherita Lotti) was a 15th-century nun from Cascia, Italy. Another famous bearer was the American actress Rita Hayworth (1918-1987).