Given name · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Lediça
“great joy; pleasure”
Lediça is a feminine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Portuguese.
Original LatinLaetitia
Meaning & origin
What it means
Lediça goes back to Latin laetitia, meaning “great joy; pleasure.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Lediça comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Galician-Portuguese lediça, from Latin laetitia (“great joy; pleasure”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Lediça’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Lediça shares an earlier linguistic root with Letícia. In Portuguese usage, Lediça continues an earlier form in Laetitia.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
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