Definition of "Patricia"

"[…] Our house is not of the era of Queen Isabella, but of the Princess Patricia.""That sounds like Aunt Isabel. They always called me Patricia there. Don't you think, papa, now that I'm getting so grown up, I ought to be called Patricia? Patty is such a baby name.""Patty is good enough for me," said Mr. Fairfield. "If you want to be called Patricia, you must get somebody else to do it. I dare say you could hire somebody for a small sum per week to call you Patricia for a given number of times every day.""Now, you're making fun of me, papa; but I do want to grow up dignified, and not be a silly schoolgirl all my life."

1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 56

"Trix" was a derivation of Trish, our mother's girlhood name, or cognomen, as she called it; Trish was itself a derivation of Patricia. Trix disliked her original name because she thought it prissy and old-fashioned, but she didn't much like "Trix" either.

1991, Joyce Carol Oates, Heat And Other Stories, Dutton