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Margaretta is a feminine given name. It derives from Latin , where it came from the Greek word margaritari (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, which was borrowed from the Persians. [ 1 ] It is cognate with Margaret , Marguerite , and Margarita .
Margareta is a female given name mainly used by Germans, Austrians, Romanians, Swedes, and others. It derives from Latin, where it came from the Greek word margaritari (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, which was borrowed from the Persians. [1]
Margaretta Mary Winifred Scott [1] (13 February 1912 – 15 April 2005) was an English stage, screen and television actress whose career spanned over seventy years. [2] She is best remembered for playing the eccentric widow Mrs. Pumphrey in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990).
Margarita is a feminine given name in Latin and Eastern European languages. In Latin it came from the Greek word margaritari (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, which was borrowed from the Persians. [1]
The younger Margaretta was known by her nickname, "Happy", given to her for her childhood disposition. She was a great-granddaughter of Philadelphia mayor Edwin Henry Fitler and a great-great-granddaughter of Union general George Gordon Meade , the commander at the Battle of Gettysburg , and his wife Margaretta Sergeant, daughter of politician ...
Margaretta Taylor (nee Johnson, born 1942) is an American billionaire heiress. She is the daughter of Anne Cox Chambers , and the granddaughter of the newspaper publisher James M. Cox . As of May 2022, her net worth was estimated at US$4.7 billion.
Margaretta M. Lovell is an American art historian who serves as the Jay D. McEvoy, Jr. Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.Her research and teaching center on the art and history of the United States, including eighteenth- and nineteenth-century landscape painting, portraiture, decorative arts, furniture, architecture, food, and forests.
Margaretta is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1875. [1] A dozen names have been proposed as species within Margaretta, but at present only one, Margaretta rosea, is categorized as "accepted" by The Plant List. Most of the rest are "unresolved," in other words, of uncertain affinity. [2]