Quiteria

kee-TEHR-ee-ah

Spanish

"the red one"

Quiteria Origin and Meaning

The name Quiteria is a girl's name meaning "the red one".

St Quiteria was a 5th century virgin martyr who was killed after refusing to renounce her Christian faith in order to marry. Her name may derive from Kythere ("the red one"), a title of the Phonecian mother-goddess Astarte, perhaps via Greek Kythereia, an epithet of Aphrodite. The French version is Quitterie.

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