Where does “Anita” come from?
Anita is a Spanish diminutive of Anna, from Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα, from Hebrew חַנָּה, a name of uncertain origin.
Ancestry of “Anita”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | Anita | — |
| 2 | Spanish | -ita | Substituted for "a" at the end of feminine words... |
| 3 | Spanish | -ito | Forms diminutives of nouns; Forms names of... |
| 4 | Latin | -ittus | diminutive suffix, used to create nouns |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tos | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |