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This is a list of nickname-related list articles on Wikipedia. A nickname is "a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name." [ 1 ] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule.
In Italy, one portion in person's name may be determined by the name day . These name days are determined according to the sanctorale, a cycle found in the General Roman Calendar, which assigns to a day a saint (or as to the great majority of days, several saints), so that different names often are celebrated on that day. [3]
Venice of Cieszyn, part of the Old Town of Cieszyn, Poland; Venice of Portugal, nickname for Aveiro, Portugal; Venice of the East, a list of places with this nickname; Venice of the North, a list of places with this nickname; Venice of the Orient, nickname for Shanghai, China "Venice of the Pacific", nickname for the ruins of Nan Madol at Pohnpei
Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name. Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms also refer to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. Additionally, sometimes the use of one or more additional words is optional.
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That ethnic name probably directly relates to a word ἰταλός (italós, "bull"), quoted in an ancient Greek gloss by Hesychius (from his collection of 51,000 unusual, obscure and foreign words). This "Greek" word is assumed to be a cognate of Latin vitulus ("calf"), although the different length of the i is a problem.