Lara (name)
Lara is a female first name.
Origin of the first name
In Roman mythology, Lara is, according to Ovid, the name of a water nymph of the Tiber River region, because of their vicious talkativeness originally " Lala " (from the Greek λάλα " the Chatty, Chatty " ) called and after losing her tongue and language of the silent underworld deity Tacita ( Dea Muta ) was, see Tacita ( mythology).
In Russian and other Slavic languages Lara is regarded as a short form of the name Larissa ( Larissa, Larysa ), which in turn comes from the Greek and there since ancient times as a place name of several ancient cities, especially the capital of Thessaly, today Larisa and the castle Larissa of Argos, is known. In mythology hereby combined the idea of two different nymphs or heroines of the name Larissa, one of which Argive, was the mother of Pelasgos loud Hellanicus, while the other Thessalian, was considered his daughter: see Larissa ( mythology). For the derivation of Lara from the Greek is out of the place name also Greek λᾱρός ' delicious, sweet, pleasant " and λάρος " sea bird, seagull " (but also dirty word: " Fool Gimpel " ) contemplated.
In addition to the Greek derivation of Russian Lara also the explanation was proposed as a Russian short form of the Italian first name Laura, back of his hand on the Latin name Laurentia ( female form to Laurentius ' man from Laurentum ").
Dissemination
In Slavic countries, the name Lara and Larissa or their equivalents are common as a given name since the 19th century, in the western world they have been through the figure of Larissa / Lara Antipowa from Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago (1957 ) and its film adaptation of 1965 popular.
In Germany Lara was from 1999 to 2008 consistently among the top ten most popular female name. In Switzerland, Lara was the most frequently chosen first name of all girls born in 2009.
Name Days
As the name Lara and Larissa had no older tradition as a Christian baptismal name, and also since the 19th century no people so far have been canonized by these names, there is neither the Roman Catholic nor the Orthodox Churches Holy of these names with feast days for the celebration name day. Popular names dictionaries as name- call times 26 March, as a day of celebration of an alleged Holy Larissa in the Crimea in the 4th century, or refer to the Holy removed with similar sounding names.
Well-known bearers of the name
People with the first name Lara
- Lara ( singer ) ( born 1980 ), Austrian singer
- Lara Andriessen (1956-2011), German writer
- Lara Belmont ( born 1980 ), British actress
- Lara Cardella (born 1969 ), Italian writer
- Lara Cox (born 1978 ), Australian actress
- Lara Dutta (born 1978 ), Indian actress, Miss Universe 2000
- Lara Fabian (born 1970 ), Belgian - Canadian singer
- Lara Fritzsche ( born 1984 ), German journalist
- Lara Flynn Boyle (born 1970 ), American actress
- Lara Gut (* 1991), Swiss skier
- Lara Joy Körner (born 1978 ), German actress
- Lara Logan (born 1971 ), American TV & Radio journalist
- Lara Magoni (born 1969 ), Italian alpine skier
- Lara Molinari (born 1970 ), Italian comic artist and illustrator
- Lara Naszinsky (* 1967), German actress, also known as Lara Lamberti
- Lara -Isabelle Rentinck (* 1986), German actress
- Lara Juliette Sanders (c. 1969), German screenwriter, director and producer
- Lara Schnitger (born 1969 ), Dutch object and installation artist
- Lara floor ( * 1992), Croatian - German chess player
- Lara Stone ( b. 1983 ), Dutch model
- Lara Thomae (* 1993), Dutch ski jumper
- Lara Wendel ( born 1965 ), American- German actress and model
Fictional people
- Lara Croft, virtual person from the computer and video game series Tomb Raider