Perdita (given name)
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Perdita Gender Feminine Language(s) Latin Meaning lost
Perdita is a feminine given name derived from perditus , meaning lost . It was used by William Shakespeare for an abandoned princess , the heroine of his 1610 play The Winter's Tale , and for a canine heroine of Dodie Smith 's 1956 book The Hundred and One Dalmatians and the Walt Disney Pictures 1961 film adaptation of the book, One Hundred and One Dalmatians .[ 1]
Perdita (The Winter's Tale ) , the heroine of Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale
Perdita Boyte, a character from the 1936 novel And Berry Came Too by Dornford Yates
Perdita Halley Reisden, a character in Sarah Smith 's historical mystery seriesThe Vanished Child , The Knowledge of Water , Citizen of the Country and Crimes and Survivors
Perdita Hyde-Sinclair , a character from the British soap opera Emmerdale
Perdita Nitt, aka Agnes Nitt, a character in the Witches subset of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
Perdita Willoughby-Lloyd, a minor character from the TV series The Haunting of Bly Manor
Queen Perdita of Vlatava, a character of the animated superhero series Young Justice
Perdita, a female Dalmatian dog in The Hundred and One Dalmatians , a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith, and the media franchise based on the novel; see 101 Dalmatians (disambiguation)
The Free Ship Perdita, a sky-sailing ship in the 1999 novel Stardust (1999) by Neil Gaiman
↑ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names . Oxford University Press. p. 60. ISBN 0-19-861060-2 .