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VALENTINA

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian, Russian, Slovene, Romanian, Ancient Roman

Other Scripts: Валентина (Russian)

Pronounced: vah-len-TEE-nah (Italian), vah-lyen-TEE-nah (Russian), vah-leen-TEE-nah (Russian)   [key]

Feminine form of Valentinus (see VALENTINE (1)). A famous bearer was the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who in 1963 became the first woman to visit space.
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(see also VALENTÍNA)

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