Female first name (German): Grete; the pearl; ancient Greek (14 helpers); Margarites = the Pearl (Old High German) as a name taken from the Latin into German, in the Middle Ages spread by the name of the Holy. Margaret of Antioch (3rd and 4th centuries) and the Greek word 'Margarites' is perhaps originally from the Persian with the meaning 'child of light' (according to the presentation of the pearl as a dew-drop, which was changed by moonlight)
