English
Letitia
Letitia may come from Latin laetitia ‘joy, gladness, happiness, pleasure, delight’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElaetitia‘joy, gladness, happiness, pleasure, delight’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2024Letitia
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElaetitia‘joy, gladness, happiness, pleasure, delight’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2024Letitia
Earliest quotation: 2024, Ray Sanchez and Sabrina Souza: “LaPierre, who over the course of three decades became…”
Every English word from Latin laetitia
Today it means
name A female given name from Latin, popular in medieval England; rather rare today.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin laetitia / Letitia