Marina (given name)

Summary

Marina is a feminine given name. It is the female version of the Roman family name Marinus, which is a form of the Latin name Marius. The meaning of Marius might be connected to Mars, the Roman god of war, or with the Latin word maris, meaning virile. It also later became associated with the Latin word marinus, meaning "of the sea".[1] It occurs in many European languages as well as Japanese.

Marina
Marina Singing Before Pericles, a scene from From Act V, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre by Thomas Stothard, 1825.
Pronunciation/məˈrnə/
GenderFemale
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Related namesMarinus, Marius, Marnie

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  • Marina, better known as 'La Malinche', Nahua interpreter, advisor, and paramour of Hernán Cortés (d. 1529)
  • Marina Butovskaya, Russian ethologist and cultural anthropologist
  • Marina Galina, Venetian dogaressa (d. 1420)
  • Marina Nani, Venetian dogaressa (d. 1473)
  • Marina Orlova (born 1980), Russian internet celebrity with the show on YouTube, HotForWords
  • Marina Papaelia, Greek-Egyptian Miss World contestant
  • Marina Oswald Porter (born 1941), widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
  • Marina Raskova (1912–1943), Russian Navigator
  • Marina Vega (1923–2011), Spanish spy for the French Resistance

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  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. pp. 184–85. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.