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The usage of Dolores as a given name has its origins in the strong influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Spanish-speaking countries. The name is a reference to Nuestra Señora de los Dolores (or La Virgen María de los Dolores), one of the many titles of Mary, Mother of Jesus, typically translated to Our Lady of Sorrows in English.
Lola is a feminine given name and nickname in the Romance languages, and other language groups. It is a short form of the Spanish name Dolores, meaning "sorrows", taken from one of the titles of the Virgin Mary: Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, or Our Lady of Sorrows.
Dolores, Spanish for "pain; grief", most commonly refers to: Our Lady of Sorrows or La Virgen María de los Dolores Dolores (given name) , including list of people and fictional characters with the name
Lolita (/ l ə ˈ l iː t ə /, / l ɒ l ˈ iː t ə /, or US: / l oʊ ˈ l iː t ə /) [1] is a female given name of Spanish origin. It is the diminutive form of Lola , a hypocorism of Dolores [ citation needed ] , which means "sorrows" or "pains" in Spanish.
"Lolita" is an English-language term defining a young girl as "precociously seductive." [1] It originates from Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita, which portrays the narrator Humbert's sexual obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl whom he privately calls "Lolita", the Spanish nickname for Dolores (her given name). [2]
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Spanish naming customs include the orthographic option of conjoining the surnames with the conjunction particle y, or e before a name starting with 'I', 'Hi' or 'Y', (both meaning "and") (e.g., José Ortega y Gasset, Tomás Portillo y Blanco, or Eduardo Dato e Iradier), following an antiquated aristocratic usage.
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