How do you pronounce this name in Spanish?

It may be a creation of words to make a name, essentially meaning (more or less), the sweet release.

Dulce would be Spanish for sweet and Quita being Spanish for release or removal.


If it is from a book or story, it might be helpful to show it here in original context.

La is pretty obvious like la in last, doll-thick-eat-a

I wouldn't go that far. Dulce (adjective) is sweet and -quita endings are often added to affectionate nicknames etc for females (-quito for males). Dolcequita just means "little sweet female one". A chiquita is a sweet little girl. Una chica dulce. Other girls names ending in -quita: Blanquita, Chaquita, Enriquita, Jacquita, Laquita, Mariquita, Marquita, Niquita, Paquita, Shaquita, Shiquita.

-ita (female) and -ito (male) endings often imply smallness (or affectionate "littleness"). Un mosquito is a little fly (mosca).

It's a name made up, as far as I can tell, by Ford Madox Ford in his novel The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

The closest name in Spanish would be something like, Dulcecita.

Cervantes used the name Dulcinea for one of his characters in his novel El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha.

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