Rosalinda or Roselinda is a female given name of

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origin, and is also thought to be a name of

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origin. It is both a combination of the name Linda and Rosa, the Spanish form of

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, and a name from which the diminutive Linda arose. In Old German, the name meant ''horse serpent''. With ''Linda'' meaning ''

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'' in Spanish and ''Rosa'' meaning ''rose'', the name could be taken to mean ''Beautiful Rose''. People with the given name Rosalinda include: * Rosalinda Asuncion Vicente (born 1943), Associate Justice of the Philippine Court of Appeals * Rosalinda Celentano (born 1968), Italian actress * Rosalinda Galli (born 1949), Italian voice actress * Roselinda Soipan Tuiya, Kenyan politician * Rosalinda González Valencia, Mexican businesswoman and suspected money launderer

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{{given name Feminine given names Given names derived from plants or flowers

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