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[Opinions] Florentina
Looking for some general feedback and comments on Florentina. It sounds very pretty to me, and I like the possibility of using Flora and Tina (and maybe Fina) as nicknames. WDYT of it? Would it sound pretentious in an English-speaking context?
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I love how ornate Florentina is! I prefer Flora to Tina as a nickname, though since I love Flora as a given name, I prefer Florrie as a nickname.
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It does remind me of cooking, but I think that could be overcome if it were on a live, actual child - particularly with a cute nickname. It's not my favorite name, but I do somewhat like it.
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More culinary than pretentious, I think! It reminds me vividly of spinach sauce.That said, it is a mouthful! Pity that Flora has become margarine; Florence seems to be rising in popularity, and is certainly a more manageable name. But Florentina is more versatile in that it could also shorten to Tina as well as the more usual Florrie, Renee and Flo.
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It reminds me too much of Italian cooking to be taken seriously as a name. It's on par with naming a child Saltimboca or something along those lines.I would with the similar-sounding Fiorenza. (Flora and Tina as nn wouldn't work, but Fina could).
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