Laetitia
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Laetitia was a minor Roman
goddess of gaiety, her name deriving from the root word laeta, meaning happy
Laetitia may refer to:
Laetitia Wells, theologian and pastor
Roman mythology
Roman mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to ancient Rome's legendary origins and religious system, as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans...
goddess of gaiety, her name deriving from the root word laeta, meaning happy
Laetitia may refer to:
People
Laetitia is a girls' name that is quite popular in the south of France and is also used in Québec. It is originally a Latin name.- Laetitia Sadier, member of Stereolab and Monade
- Saint Laetitia
- Laetitia CastaLaetitia CastaLaetitia Marie Laure Casta is a French model and actress.-Early life:Laetitia Casta was born in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France. Her mother, Line Blin, is from Normandy. Her father, Dominique Casta, is from Corsica. She has an older brother, Jean-Baptiste, and a younger sister, Marie-Ange...
, a French supermodel who rose to fame in the 1990s - Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium
Laetitia Wells, theologian and pastor
Other
- "Laetitia" is a song by the German musical project E NomineE NomineE Nomine is a German musical project, formed in 1999, by producers Christian Weller and Friedrich "Fritz" Graner. Their music, which they call monumental dance, is an unusual combination of trance, techno, and vocals which closely resemble Gregorian singing and chanting...
featured on their studio album Die Prophezeiung
Fictional characters
- Laetitia Grinder, a fictional character from Arthur SullivanArthur SullivanSir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...
's 1875 short opera The Zoo - Miss Lætitia Prism, a fictional character from Oscar WildeOscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
's play The Importance of Being Earnest - Laetitia, a fictional character from the anime series MadlaxMADLAXis a 26-episode Japanese anime television series produced in 2004 by the Bee Train animation studio. Kōichi Mashimo directed Madlax and the soundtrack was composed by Yuki Kajiura...
- Miss Laetitia Blacklock is a character in Agatha ChristieAgatha ChristieDame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
's novel A Murder is AnnouncedA Murder is AnnouncedA Murder is Announced is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1950 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in the same month...
See also
- 39 Laetitia39 Laetitia39 Laetitia is a large, bright main-belt asteroid.Laetitia was discovered by J. Chacornac on February 8, 1856, and named after Laetitia, a minor Roman goddess of gaiety....
, an asteroid - Leticia (disambiguation)
- LetitiaLetitiaLetitia is a feminine given name derived from a Latin term meaning "joy, happiness." It appeared in the form "Lettice" in medieval England and is rarely used today.-Variants:*Letícia , Hungarian)*Letitia...