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Gioconda (F)
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Gioconda (female)
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Source(s):
The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:
Italian from Latin "happy, jovial".
Note
: Leonardo da Vinci's
Mona Lisa
is also called
La Giaconda
because that was her married surname, not because she is "happy" [although she might have been!].
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