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	Iberian naming customs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On November 21, 1849 the Spanish administration of the Philippines, under the authority of Governor General Narciso Clavería, decreed a systematic distribution of family names and the implementation of the Spanish naming system for the use of the natives.
		Surnames of Spanish nobility, as well as surnames belonging to the Spanish colonial administrators in the Philippines (which had acquired connotation of prestige in the archipelago) were explicitly prohibited.
		The custom of a woman changing her name upon marriage was not a Portuguese tradition and it spread in the 20th century, particularly during the Estado Novo when it became almost obligatory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_and_Portuguese_names (3499 words)

	Brazilian Portuguese Translation - Translate Portuguese Language Translator
		Portuguese is nicknamed ''A l ngua de Cam es'' (after Lu s de Cam es, the author of The Lusiad); and ''A ltima flor do L cio'' ("The last flower of Latium").
		The Portuguese language was spread worldwide in the 15th and 16th centuries as Portugal created the first and the longest lived modern-world colonial and commercial empire, spanning from Brazil in the Americas to Macau in China and Japan.
		Portuguese speakers are generally able to read Spanish, and Spanish speakers are generally able to read Portuguese, even if they cannot understand the spoken language.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/portuguese.shtml (1585 words)

	Portuguese Names 1350-1450
		The large number of foreign names reflects the emphasis of the chronicle on public events, specifically the wars between Pedro of Castille and John of Gaunt, the English prince who pressed a claim to the Castillian throne on behalf of his wife, a Spanish princess.
		Some are identified only by a given name because they are members of the royal family; others are unimportant people mentioned only in passing, and it is possible that the author simply did not know their byname.
		Among the bracketed named, ones marked with a star * are from the late twelfth century; the unstarred names are from the sixteenth century.
	www.s-gabriel.org /names/juliana/portuguese (1133 words)

	Portuguese Names from the 16th Century: Letters from the Court of King John III
		Likewise, if the same name is mentioned after a gap of 5 years or more, I have assumed that they are different people, unless textual evidence suggests that they are the same individual.
		Reflecting the close relationship between Portugal and Spain, Portuguese names in the sixteenth century were quite similar to Spanish names, though distinctly Portuguese forms were evident.
		Portuguese names were roughly similar in complexity to Spanish names at the same time: no one mentioned here had a second given (middle) name, and only 15% have a surname with two elements.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/names/portugal16.htm (974 words)

	Behind the Name: Message: "Re: Spanish/Portuguese first names."
		Elba was, originally, a nickname of the names with the Germanic root alb-, "elf" (e.
		In Spanish, Elva can be: a) a name of Germanic origin in Spanish; b) a nickname of Elvira; c) a typo for Elba (V and B sound the same).
		Nélida is the adaptation of the French name Nélide (created by Daniel Stern), with the confluence of a nickname of Cornelia (Cornelia>Nelia>Nélida).
	www.behindthename.com /bb_gen/arcview.php?id=48943 (224 words)

	Scholarships \| Spanish and Portuguese
		Scholars are selected by a special committee of the department of Spanish and Portuguese and subject to the approval of the Office of Student Financial Aid.
		Early in the spring semester, each department may submit the name of a student who excels academically, is involved in extracurricular activities, and will have completed 86 units by the end of the spring semester.
		Students receiving honors are recognized at the college honors convocations, and their names are posted in the display case outside of the Office of Academic Services, Modern Languages 347, at the end of each semester.
	w3.coh.arizona.edu /spanish/admissions/under_financial.htm (1108 words)

	Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Possessions
		Portuguese interests got neglected, and when the Dutch and English, especially, got energetic at the beginning of the 17th century, Portuguese holdings withered considerably.
		Spanish Peru was established with the Conquest of the Incas by Francisco Pizarro.
		The name of Jabal Mûsâ thus may reflect the judgment of the Arabs that this was Mount Abyla, and it was named (not, to be sure, by Sulaymân) as a companion to the Jabal T.âriq, with both commemorating the two conquerors of Spain and Morocco.
	www.friesian.com /newspain.htm (8450 words)

	Spanish Family Names
		This way when a woman marries a man, she never losses her maiden surname, and her family name is carried by her descendents (although just for one generation).
		If your surname is the name of a common thing, the name of a place, a first name, or simply you are old fashioned, then you add a de (of), which is similar to the German von or the Dutch van.
		Women don't need to change their family names along their lives (this must be painful, specially for the ones that get married several times).
	klamath.stanford.edu /~molinero/html/surname.html (1142 words)

	Medieval Naming Guides: Spanish, Portuguese, and Basque
		Medieval Spanish Names from the Monastery of Sahagun, by Antonio Miguel Santos de Borja
		Portuguese Names from the 16th Century: Letters from the Court of King John III, by Juliana de Luna
		Portuguese Names from Lisbon, 1565, by Aryanhwy merch Catmael
	www.s-gabriel.org /names/iberian.shtml (774 words)

	Portuguese \| Yale College Programs of Study
		Portuguese is taught at Yale as part of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese; the names of departmental faculty members teaching Portuguese courses appear in the faculty list under "Spanish."
		The major in Portuguese is a liberal arts major intended to develop competence in the Portuguese language and to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of the literatures and cultures of Portugal, Brazil, and African and Asian lands of Portuguese language or influence.
		Juniors and seniors majoring in Portuguese may, with the permission of the instructor and the director of graduate studies, enroll in graduate courses in Portuguese.
	www.yale.edu /yalecollege/publications/ycps/chapter_iv/portuguese.html (653 words)

	The COMMON NAMES Table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Some, such as English, French, Spanish or Portuguese, are very widespread and have names for many fishes not occurring in the countries where the language is spoken.
		Name: A text field that pertains to the vernacular or common name of a given species in a given culture.
		Note that different names often are given to the different reproductive stages of female and male fish, sometimes in conjunction with religious rituals.
	www.fishbase.org /manual/english/FishbaseThe_COMMON_NAMES_Table.htm (2407 words)

	Spanish and Portuguese names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In Spanish-speaking countries, the name of the father is put before the name of the mother; these are then known as the apellido paterno ("paternal surname") and the apellido materno or segundo apellido (maternal or second surname).
		As is still the case with Catalan names (see below), the option exists to connect the two surnames by means of y ("and"): one well known example of this is José Ortega y Gasset.
		In countries where Portuguese is spoken, the pattern is similar to the Spanish one, except that the maternal surname is placed before the paternal surname.
	buensuceso.com /history4_hispanic_influence.htm (1161 words)

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		Writing the Name of One's Country in its Own Characters An early focus of the "multilingual domain name" efforts was expressed in statements such as "users in my country, in which ASCII is rarely used, should be able to write an entire domain name in their own character set".
		When DNS names are received by these client programs, the TLD labels would be mapped to local form before IDNA is applied to the rest of the name; when names are received from users, local TLD names would be mapped to the global ones before applying IDNA or being used in other DNS processing.
		In particular, precisely because the translated names proposed here are part of a presentation form, rather than the internal form names, they are inappropriate in a number of circumstances in which a globally-unique, internal-form name is actually required.
	www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc4185.txt (6191 words)

	Spanish Meaning Of Names Data And Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Girl boy meaning Spanish boy names 178 Spanish boy names showing Spanish boy names 0 to 75 of 178 1 2 3 next abound relating to the abase boy name Abran exalted father boy name Adan.
		I got scared while reading the mo zine forum, where all the stupid meaning Spanish names and weird animal names were proposed.
		Display your Spanish last name origin on a family last name origin and surname meaning, or your coat of arms.
	www.ineedababyname.com /spanish-meaning-of-names.html (994 words)

	Gymnastics with Onomastics
		In Brazilian, the name of the mother precedes the father's, so that the mother of Eliana Marcia Villela Gomes Soares has a surname of Villela, while Eliana's father had the surname of Gomes Soares (Gomes being the family name of his mother).
		The first name is often, especially in Britain, called the Christian name, because after the Norman Conquest the first name was frequently taken from that of a Christian saint (Matthew, Mark, Luke and others).
		Many cultures have private names, or true names, that are only to be used by family and close friends, with a public name used regularly instead.
	www.langmaker.com /ml0103a.htm (2514 words)

	§ 50. Negro. 6. Names and Labels. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
		Negro was borrowed into English from the Spanish and Portuguese words for fl long before the first Africans were sold to settlers in Virginia in 1619, and it has undergone a series of ups and downs, at least in American English, ever since.
		Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries negro, generally spelled lowercase, was the most common label for referring to Africans or persons of African descent.
		But neither of the earlier terms disappeared, and by the end of the 19th century many fl writers, such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, were using negro and fl as readily as colored.
	www.bartleby.com /64/C006/050.html (322 words)

	Modern Languages: Spanish And Portuguese Division Undergraduate Information Spring 2001 Courses
		The course is designed to bring about among the students an appreciation of the wealth of subconscious knowledge that all human beings acquire and thus possess to be able to speak and comprehend their native languages.
		This course is based on positive transfer of applicable linguistic structures of Spanish, avoidance of negative transfer, and concentration on structures unique to Portuguese.
		The course has several objectives: 1) to introduce students to some of Spanish America's authors and major literary movements; 2) to provide students with the appropriate social, historical, political and cultural background for the reading of Spanish-American texts; and 3) to train students to read and analyze literary texts.
	www.fsu.edu /~modlang/divisions/spanish/undergradspring01.html (955 words)

	M.M.P.N.D. - Sorting Mauritia names
		PORTUGUESE : Burití (as M. vinifera - Brazil), Carandaguaçu (Brazil), Carandaiguaçu (Brazil), Miriti, Palmeira-dos-brejos.
		Spanish and Portuguese names should equally differentiate between the 2 genera.
		Feedback on these names in any language is most welcome.
	www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au /Sorting/Mauritia.html (302 words)

	In Search of Credit Card Issuers for Spanish Domain Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Spanish web surfers worldwide may soon be offered a one stop shop financial portal to apply for credit cards, debit cards, and other financial products.
		The sale includes not one, but four domain names in the Spanish and Portuguese language that will make a financial institution very happy someday, claims their owner, Mark Colyer.
		The challenge at this point for Colyer is that no affiliate or bounty type programs exist for the Spanish or Portuguese language, so the outright sale of the names is the only option at this time.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/11/emw173786.htm (679 words)

	20000-NAMES.COM: Female Spanish Names, Page 1 of 2--meaning, origin, etymology
		: Probably a variant of Spanish Adelina, meaning "noble." This name was used for the heroine of the Mexican folk song "La Adelita," one of the most famous corridos to come out of the Mexican Revolution.
		: Spanish name derived from the word candela, meaning "candle." The Spanish had a custom of bestowing religious names on their daughters, and sometimes their sons, in honor of the Virgin Mary; for example, Nuestra Senora de los Candelaria which translates to "Our Lady of the Candles," referring to the purification of Mary during Candlemas.
		This name was borne by an 11th-century saint who was probably of Moorish descent.
	www.20000-names.com /female_spanish_names.htm (1429 words)

	Behind the Name: Message: "Spanish/Portuguese first names."
		May 17, 2005 at 9:05:20 AM I have distant relatives living in Argentina, and some of their names are unknown to me (or I can't find anything about the meaning or origin of those names on the Internet).
		Elba - this name is listed in the database, but it doesn't list a meaning.
		That are all the names I would like to know the meaning of.
	www.behindthename.com /bb_gen/view.php?id=48934 (374 words)

	Entry element for Spanish and Portuguese surnames
		Portuguese and Spanish names are set up differently.
		indicate the author's preference, that the two name should be kept together as surnames, or should the rules for the language be given priority?
		The directions in AACR2 are for the "general case" in names, rather than what's been going on now.
	www.library.yale.edu /cataloging/music/spanport.htm (240 words)

	Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley » current students
		Department of Spanish and Portuguese : UC, Berkeley
		The Minor in Spanish, Portuguese or Hispanic linguistics
		The first is in Spanish Language and Literatures and requires 5 upper-division Spanish courses (details below).
	spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu /category/current-students (833 words)

	Cataloging Latin American Imprints, UM Libraries
		Spanish and Portuguese names are set up differently from each other.
		The names below mean the same thing but are established differently.
		If the edition statement appears in conjunction with the printer's name or the number of copies printed, generally consider the edition statement to reflect printing information.
	www.lib.umd.edu /TSD/ACDM/ACDM_latin.html (375 words)

	Spanish Baby Names - Spanish Names
		Abbreviations for names ending in '-ano' and '-rio.' Chan: (Chinese) family name.
		Variant of Greek name Cynthia - one of the names of the mythological mood goddess Artemis referring to her birth on Mount Cynthus.
		Mars was the mythological Roman god of fertility for whom the month March was named; mythologically identified with the Greek war god Ares.
	www.babynamebox.com /spanish-baby-names.html (355 words)

	@LETTRINE = Sephardic genealogical research
		Mizrahi is a common Sephardic name found from Morocco to Greece, to Turkey, to Syria, Iran and every place on the road to and from the old Silk Caravan Route.
		The problem with finding the origins of Sephardic names is that many Sephardim took their names from varying sources at different times.
		If the name is there, the computer will list all records (and dates) in which it appears.
	www.sefarad.org /publication/lm/010/cardoza.html (1543 words)

	Spanish and Portuguese - Newsletter Fall 2001
		This will be the final newsletter published during my tenure as Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
		We have hosted major academic conferences on Chicano literature and culture (1997), the Spanish Generation of ‘98 (1998), and Mexican culture (2000), and we have welcomed such distinguished novelists as Juan Goytisolo, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Ivan Angelo to UCLA.
		The play was performed during the farewell reception of the Undergraduate Students Association of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and later during the Department’s pre-commencement celebration.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/spanport/publications/Fall_2001.html (2440 words)

	20000-NAMES.COM: Male Spanish Names, Page 1 of 3--meaning, origin, etymology
		: Spanish form of Roman Atilius, of unknown meaning.
		: Nickname for Italian/Spanish Desiderio, meaning "longing." This name was borne by the Cuban actor Desi Arnaz, husband of Lucille Ball.
		: Spanish form of Latin Emidius, meaning "half-god, demigod." Literally, this form of the name also means "weary, tired."
	www.20000-names.com /male_spanish_names.htm (1544 words)

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