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View Name: Rosaline

ROSALINE

GENDER: Feminine

USAGE: English

PRONOUNCED: RAWZ-ə-lien, ROZ-ə-leen [key]

Meaning & History

Medieval variant of ROSALIND. This is the name of characters in Shakespeare's 'Love's Labour's Lost' (1594) and 'Romeo and Juliet' (1596).

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VARIANTS: Rosalind, Rosaleen, Rosalin, Rosalyn, Rosalynne, Roselyn, Roslyn

DIMINUTIVES: Ros, Roz

OTHER LANGUAGES: Roslindis (Ancient Germanic), Rosalinda (Italian), Rosalina (Portuguese), Rosalina, Rosalinda (Spanish)

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