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Araminta

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Gender
  
Feminine

Word/name
  
Old English

Language(s)
  
English

Meaning
  
Prayer and protection

Nickname(s)
  
Minta, Minty, Minnie, Ara

Related names
  
Aminta/Amynta, Aramantha, Arminta

Araminta is a rare feminine given name. a cross between Aminta and Arabella meaning prayer and protection

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Given name

  • Araminta Ross, who later adopted the name Harriet Tubman
  • Use in fiction

    A similar name was used by poet Richard Lovelace for the title heroine of "Aramantha: A Pastorall" (1649). John Dryden apparently used a variant of the masculine Greek name Amyntas for a female character in "Go tell Amynta, gentle swain" (1680s).

  • Araminta, character in William Congreve's comedy The Old Bachelor (1693)
  • Araminta, character in Sir John Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy (1705)
  • Matilda Angelina Araminta Phelps, the name given to Tom Sawyer's baby cousin in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
  • Araminta, mother of Velvet Brown, the title heroine of Enid Bagnold's novel National Velvet (1935)
  • Araminta Melliflua, a minor character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series—a maternal cousin of Sirius Black who once crusaded for the legalization of Muggle-hunting
  • Araminta Spook, title character and protagonist of Angie Sage's Araminta Spook series of children's books, first released in 2008
  • Araminta, one of the main characters in the Void Trilogy from Peter F. Hamilton
  • Araminta "Minta" Herrick (née Cardew), one of the main characters in Victoria Holt's 'The Shadow of the Lynx'.
  • Araminta Station, a science fiction novel by Jack Vance; first book of the "Cadwal Chronicles"
  • Araminta 'Minty' Cane, character from the TV series Moondial and book it was based on.
  • References

    Araminta Wikipedia