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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I feel like Theodora, nn Thea, is the updated version of Dorothy[/b]. I've known several people who have used Theodora to honor a family member named Dorothy or Dorothea.[/quote] They are totally unrelated names though.[/quote] No, they aren’t just related, they’re essentially the same name and therefore one is often a namesake of the other as Pp said. They come from ancient Greek where a common naming convention was a god’s name plus some. Doro=gift and Theo=god. Gift from God. Theodora was much more common because usually the god’s name came first but sometimes they were reversed. There were also the masculine versions, Theodoros and Dorotheos. [/quote]
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