Zita

See also: zita, zità, and žita

Czech

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈzɪta]

Proper noun

Zita f

  1. a female given name

Declension
Declension of Zita (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative Zita Zity
genitive Zity Zit
dative Zitě Zitám
accusative Zitu Zity
vocative Zito Zity
locative Zitě Zitách
instrumental Zitou Zitami

Italian

Etymology

Name of a 13th century Italian saint, of debated etymology.

Proper noun

Zita f

  1. a female given name

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1938. From Latin Sidonia, feminine form of the saint's name Sidonius (“a resident of Sidon”).

Proper noun

Zita f

  1. a female given name

References
  • Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
  • Population Register of Latvia: Zita was the only given name of 1066 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Lithuanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin Zitta, diminutive of Sidonia.

Proper noun

Zità f

  1. a female given name

References
  • Kazys Kuzavinis - Bronys Savukynas: Lietuvių vardų kilmės žodynas, Vilnius, Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidykla, 1994

Occitan

Proper noun

Zita f (Gascony)

  1. a female given name

Further reading
  • Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 157.

Slovak

Proper noun

Zita f (genitive singular Zity, nominative plural Zity, declension pattern of žena)

  1. a female given name

Declension
Declension of Zita
singular plural
nominative Zita Zity
genitive Zity Zít
dative Zite Zitám
accusative Zitu Zity
locative Zite Zitách
instrumental Zitou Zitami

Further reading
  • “Zita”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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