Female first name (German): Reta, the pearl, taken as a name from the Latin into German;; ancient Greek (14 helpers); Margarites = the Pearl (Old High 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) Female first name (German, Swiss German, Romansh): Reta, the Rätoromanin; Latin (Geographic name as first name), information on the male form Reto:; the Rhaetian (from the field of Romansh speakers in the Swiss Alps), goes back to 'Rhaetia' or ' Raetia ', the name of a Roman province (in some area that is now Graubünden, Tyrol and Vorarlberg), the name of the province is perhaps of Celtic origin, from' rait '(Bergland)