English translation/equivalent: Lina

Origin: Derived from the Greek, Latinized into Linus and refers to linen. Often the abbreviated form of names ending in –lina, such as Angelina.

Name Day/Onomastico: September 23—in memory of St. Linus, pope martyred in 78.

Related Name/Other Italian Forms: feminine form of Lino

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