This name derives from Latin "dŏlŏr > doloris", meaning “sorrowful, travail, emotion”. The name refers especially the form Spanish “Dolores”, where the name originated and is more prevalent, it is a short form for “La Virgen María de los Dolores” (Virgin Mary of Sorrows), and is often shortened to the more colloquial forms Lola, Lolita or Loli. The term also refers to the original Latin translated in “travail of childbirth” and is therefore linked to births.
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