Perdita (given name)

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GenderFeminine
Language(s)Latin
Meaninglost
Perdita
Florizel and Perdita from William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale by Mary F Raphael, ca. 1901.
GenderFeminine
Language(s)Latin
Origin
Meaninglost

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]

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