Name	Arianna
Gender	Female
Meaning	Drift from the greek Ariadne, composed from the prefix intensifying ari and haghne “sacred, chaste”: it means therefore “very chaste, purest, sacred one”. Latinised in Ariadne and Ariadna, became Arianna probably to smooth the pronunciation. A famous Arianna is the beautiful daughter of Minosse, king of Crete, which Teseo saved from the Minotauro, thanks to the famous thread, guiding him to exit from the maze.
English translation/equivalent	Ariadne
Spanish translation/equivalent	Ariadna
French translation/equivalent	Ariane
German translation/equivalent	Ariadne
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