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[Facts] Any clues to meaning/etymology? Spanish? Female.
Met a kid whose name is VIRIDIANA. Mom in Mexican-American family chose that name for her daughter because she (mom) had known someone with the same name and liked the name, but does not know what it means.
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If I am interpreting my Italian and Spanish name dictionaries correctly, Viridiana goes back to Viridianus, a Roman family name which probably was related to the word for "green", with the connotation of both "youthful" and "flourishing". St. Viridiana was a Italian Benedictine nun who died in 1242:http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=007v2h
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Viridiana comes from the Latin presonal name Viridianus, Viridiana, Roman cognomen from viridis, "green", with the addition of -anus, that is "greenish", in the sense of "young, fresh".The diffusion of the name in Mexico and Spain is because of the film Viridiana by Luis Buñuel (1961).
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Perhaps it's related to the colour viridian?
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