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Andorra la Vella means "the city of Andorra", to distinguish it from the Principality of Andorra as a whole. [3] Although in Catalan the word vella (like French vieille) is derived from the Latin word vetula which means "old", the Vella here (like French ville and Catalan vila) is derived from the Latin word villa, meaning "city".
A name in the Italian language consists of a given name (Italian: nome) and a surname (cognome); in most contexts, the given name is written before the surname, although in official documents, the surname may be written before the given name or names. Italian names, with their fixed nome and cognome structure, differ from the ancient Roman ...
John Vella (born 1950), American football player; Joseph Vella (1942–2018), Maltese composer; Karmenu Vella (born 1950), Maltese politician; Leandro Vella (born 1996), Argentine footballer; Lolly Vella (1933–2012), Australian soccer player; Luciano Vella (born 1981), Argentine footballer; Margot Vella (born 1999), Australian dual-code rugby ...
Bella is a feminine given name. It is a diminutive form of names ending in -bella. Bella is related to the Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Latin words for beautiful, and to the name Belle, meaning beautiful in French. [1] [2] It increased in usage following the publication of the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer.
Pages in category "Italian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,374 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
After the Italian, English subtitled version became a hit in English speaking territories, Miramax reissued Life Is Beautiful in an English dubbed version, but it was less successful than the subtitled Italian version. [24] The film was aired on the Italian television station RAI on 22 October 2001 and was viewed by 16 million people. This made ...
The etymology of the name of Italy has been the subject of reconstructions by linguists and historians.Considerations extraneous to the specifically linguistic reconstruction of the name have formed a rich corpus of solutions that are either associated with legend (the existence of a king named Italus) or in any case strongly problematic (such as the connection of the name with the grape vine ...
Italian was first declared to be Italy's official language during the Fascist period, more specifically through the R.D.l., adopted on 15 October 1925, with the name of Sull'Obbligo della lingua italiana in tutti gli uffici giudiziari del Regno, salvo le eccezioni stabilite nei trattati internazionali per la città di Fiume.