Rosalind

Rosalind

Rosalind ♀ From an Old French personal name of Germanic (Frankish) origin, from hros ‘horse’ + lind ‘weak, tender, soft’. It was adopted by the Normans and introduced by them to Britain. In the Middle Ages it was reanalysed by folk etymology as if from Latin rosa linda ‘lovely rose’. Its popularity as a given name owes much to its use by Edmund Spenser for the character of a shepherdess in his pastoral poetry, and by Shakespeare as the name of the heroine in As You Like It (1599).

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Rosalind

Rosalind The eighth-closest satellite of Uranus, distance 69 900 km, orbital period 0.558 days; also known as Uranus XIII. Its diameter is 54 km, and it was discovered in 1986 on images from the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

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Rosalind,
1. in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, an unknown lady celebrated by the poet as his love;

2. the heroine of Shakespeare's As You Like It, whose chief source was Lodge's Rosalynde.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Rosalind." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Rosalind (Uranus XIII) One of the lesser satellites of Uranus, with a diameter of 29 km. It was discovered in 1986.

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AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "Rosalind." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Rosalind , in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Uranus .

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"Rosalind." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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