Gender Feminine
Usage Italian, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, Albanian, Romanian, Spanish, Greek, Ancient Roman
Pronounced Pron. /va.len.ˈtiː.na/(Italian) /və.lʲɪnʲ.ˈtʲi.nə/(Russian) /vɐ.lʲɛnʲ.tʲɪ.ˈnɐ/(Lithuanian) /ba.len.ˈti.na/(Spanish)
Meaning & History
Feminine form of Valentinus (see Valentine 1). A famous bearer is the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (1937-), who in 1963 became the first woman to visit space.