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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Latin, fem. of patricius "patrician, noble" (see Patrick).
Wikipedia
It was written by Benny Davis. The song was published in 1950. Perry Como recorded the song on August 10, 1950, and it was released on the following single records:
- In the United States by RCA, as a 78rpm single (catalog number 20-3905-A) and a 45rpm single (catalog number 47-3905-A), with the flip side " Watchin' The Trains Go By." This record spent 12 weeks on the Billboard chart, beginning on September 22, 1950, and reached position #7.
- In the United Kingdom by HMV, as a 78rpm single (catalogue number B-10010) in January 1951), with the flip side " So Long Sally."
- In Australia by HMV, as a 78rpm single (catalogue number EA 3951) in 1951, with the flip side " If You Were My Girl".
Category:Songs written by Benny Davis Category:1950 songs
"Patricia" is a popular song with music by Pérez Prado and lyrics by Bob Marcus, published in 1958. The song is best known in an instrumental version by Prado's orchestra that became the last record to ascend to #1 on the Billboard Jockeys and Top 100 charts, both of which gave way the next week to the then newly introduced Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was also number one on the R&B Best Sellers for two weeks. It became a gold record. Billboard ranked it as the No. 5 song for 1958.
Prado re-charted and re-recorded the song in a 1962 "twist" version.
The tune in Perry Como's " Patricia" in 1950 bears no resemblance to any version of Prado's.
Patricia is a common female given name of Latin origin. Derived from the Latin word patrician, meaning "noble", the masculine form of the name is Patrick. The name Patricia was the second most common female name in the United States according to the 1990 US Census.
It is commonly shortened to 'Pat', 'Pati/Paty', 'Patsy', Patti/Pattie', 'Trish' or 'Trisha/Tricia'. These diminutives are sometimes used as names in their own right. Another well-known variant of this is ' Patrice'.
According to the US Social Security Administration records, the use of the name for newborns peaked at #3 from 1937 to 1943 in the USA, after which it dropped in popularity, reaching a low of #442 in 2007. From 1928 to 1967, the name was ranked among the top #11 female names.
In Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries, the name Patricia is common as well, pronounced , while in Italy Patrizia is the form, pronounced . In Polish, the variant is Patrycja.
The Patricia is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe built in 1942 by Oliver Duke. She measures 27'-4" long, and has a beam of 6'-4". The Patricia has a slightly hollow longhead bow and a sharp stern. Painted white, the canoe races under the no. 19. She is one of twenty-two traditional Chesapeake Bay racing log canoes existing today. The Patricia, and boats like her, carry on a tradition of racing on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that has existed since the 1840s. She is located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Patricia is a common given name. It may also refer to:
In arts and entertainment:
- Patricia (1950 song), a song written by Benny Davis, recorded by Perry Como
- Patricia (Perez Prado song), a song with music by Perez Prado and lyrics by Bob Marcus, featured in the film La Dolce Vita
- "Patricia the Stripper", a song on the 1975 Chris de Burgh album, Spanish Train and Other Stories
- "Patricia the Stripper", a song on the 2007 Wombats album, The Wombats Proudly Present: A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation
Places:
- Patricia, South Dakota, USA
- Patricia, Texas, USA
- Patricia, Alberta, Canada
Other uses:
-
, a Liberian, and later Cypriot, cargo ship
- Hurricane Patricia (2015), the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Western Hemisphere
- Princess Patricia of Connaught, a member of the British Royal Family and granddaughter of Queen Victoria
- Patricia trie, a method of dictionary compression
Patricia is a genus of clearwing ( ithomiine) butterflies, named by Fox in 1940. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.
Usage examples of "patricia".
The success of the books made them a natural for television and to date Jemima has featured in two series: in the first played by Maria Aitken, and subsequently, Patricia Hodge.
My purpose here is neither to defend or condemn John or Patricia Ramsey, nor to justify the actions or positions for which, in certain circles, I have been roundly criticized and my motives challenged.
Charles Whittaker, 12 Harley Road, Abingdon, Oxon Teacher and Helen Patricia Whittaker his wife of the same address.
Its authors, Heinz van Foerster, Patricia Mora and Lawrence Amiot, were members of the staff of the department of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana.
James and I always used to get into trouble when Patricia was babysitting us as a kid.
Dennis Stull and Patricia Fitzgerald were solidly, legally, bindingly, 'it takes a divorce court to end it' married.
What with Patricia on the premises to cramp his style, and Norman Kent crippled, and the British Secret Service, as represented by Captain Gerald Harding, a prisoner inside the fort on a very vague parole, and Chief Inspector Teal combing the district and liable to roll up on the scene at any moment, and Rayt Marius surrounding the bungalow with a young army corps that had already given proof enough that it wasn't accumulated in Maidenhead for a Sunday afternoon bun-fightwell, even such an optimistic man as the Saint had to admit that the affair had begun to look distinctly sticky.
He knew that the men in the house were foreignersthat even Marius, with his too-perfect English, was a foreignerand that no one but the Saint and Patricia could be expected to be familiar with the more abstruse perversions and defilements possible to the well of native English.
Once upon a time, you see, there had been a lonely eighteen-year-old girl named Patricia Blum who had been refused entry to the after-prom party that was held at the country club in the upstate town of Glointon, New York.
Patricia had one assistant with her, while Kiera was accompanied by Bonney and Stanyon.
I'll arrange to have you photographed being wetly kissed by a bare-breasted aborigine maiden, and send eight-by-ten glossies to Patricia.
Guibedo and Patricia had vastly different cultural backgrounds and, as a result, used totally different body languages.
Patricia ate lunch with Carrolson and the three Chinese, napped for half an hour, then took her slate and a camp stool across the flat to the dwarf forest, where she sat and began to make her own notes.
As all three were in the habit of riding out when they were at home, Wally told me to saddle up two of my horses to go out with the first string on Saturday, Sparking Plug for me and the other for Lady Patricia Tarren.
She had a demanding directness in her manner—almost a female version of Lanier, Patricia thought.