Rosalinda (given name)

Rosalind [e / a], also Rosalin is a female first name.

Origin and Meaning

The name is of Germanic origin and formed from Germanic hrod, horse, horse ' and lind ' curing ', and finds himself Lombard as Rodelinde, comes with the Goths in Spain, and is there to vulgärlatinisiert, delicate / beautiful rose ' reinterpreted.

Dissemination

The name probably wanders through Old French into the English -speaking world. The name already appeared in Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), and then at Thomas Lodge in the novella Rosalynde of 1599th it is known by William Shakespeare processing of the substance in the comedy As You Like It by approximately 1600th As a fashion name begins it to spread in the 18th century, and then increased during the period of double names end of the 19th century, probably. than ornamental form to Rosa Linda, where he goes back to the German

Variants

• English Rosaleen, Rosalin, Rosalyn [n ], Roslyn [n ], Rozalind

Name winners (all forms)

• Rosalind, the wife of Peiting († 14-15. Century), bog body ( Nachbenennung one unknown )

• Rosalyn Evette Bryant, married Clark ( born 1956 ), American sprinter
• Rosalyn Doris Fairbank - Nideffer, known Rosalyn Fairbank (1960), South African tennis player
• Dame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE ( born 1937 ), British law scholar
• Rosalyn Landor (born 1958 ), English actress
• Roselyn Sánchez (born 1973 ), Puerto Rican actress and singer
• Rosalyn Tureck (1914-2003), American concert pianist
• Rosalyn Yalow, born Sussman (1921-2011), American physicist

Fictional people:

• A female character from William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It

Others

• Geography: Rosalind, Roslin, Ros [s ] lyn
• Astronomy: Rosalind, Uranus Moon (1986 found ); (900) Rosalind, Asteroid;
• Before There Was Rosalyn, American post-hardcore band