"Traditional Spanish name"
The name Mariposa is commonly a female name from the "Spanish" origin.
Mariposa is the Spanish word for butterfly, recorded with that sense in the Diccionario de la lengua española of the Real Academia Española. It is also used as a female given name in Spanish-speaking countries, where the word's meaning stays transparent to speakers. The further etymology of the Spanish word itself is not settled, and competing explanations have been proposed.
The pronunciation of Mariposa is mar-ih-POH-suh.
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