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The name is often anglicised as its English language equivalent Patrick or phonetically, e.g. Pauric. Diminutives include Páidín , Páidí (both anglicised as 'Paudeen' and ' Paddy ', respectively), and the feminine equivalent Pádraigín ( little Patrick ), which was originally an exclusively masculine name before later being viewed as the ...
Among Italian Americans, it is often used as a pet name for Pasquale. [ 1 ] In older usage, Patsy was also a nickname for Martha or Matilda , following a common nicknaming pattern of changing an M to a P (such as in Margaret → Meg/Meggy → Peg/Peggy; and Molly → Polly) and adding a feminine suffix.
It is a cognate of the French name Pascal, the Spanish Pascual, the Portuguese Pascoal and the Catalan Pasqual. Pasquale derives from the Latin paschalis or pashalis , which means "relating to Easter ", from Latin pascha (" Easter "), Greek Πάσχα , Aramaic pasḥā , in turn from the Hebrew פֶּסַח , which means "to be born on, or to ...
25. Aldo. While this means “old and wise,” it makes a great name for any boy. 26. Carlo. Keep your Italian heritage alive with this name that translates to “free man.”
Patrick McKinney in the Netflix television series Stranger Things. Patrick McReary, character in GTA IV and GTA V. Patrick Star in the television series SpongeBob SquarePants; Patrick Verona, main character in 10 Things I Hate About You; Lord Harry, also known as Patrick, the locomotive character from The Railway Series books by the Rev. W. Awdry
Barrett hosts a language-focused podcast called “A Way With Words,” which recently dealt with the spelling of “zhuzh,” when a caller, like the Kardashians, had no idea how to spell it ...
Derived from the Latin word patrician, meaning 'noble', it is the feminine form of the masculine given name Patrick. Another well-known variant is Patrice . According to the US Social Security Administration records, the use of the name for newborns peaked at #3 from 1937 to 1943 in the United States, after which it dropped in popularity ...
A name in the Italian language consists of a given name (Italian: nome) and a surname (cognome); in most contexts, the given name is written before the surname, although in official documents, the surname may be written before the given name or names. Italian names, with their fixed nome and cognome structure, differ from the ancient Roman ...