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Antonia, Antónia, Antônia, or Antonía is a feminine given name and a surname. It is of Roman origin, used as the name of women of the Antonius family. Its meaning is "priceless", "praiseworthy" and "beautiful". Antonia is a Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Maltese name used in many parts of the world. [1]
Carolina is a feminine given name in Italian, English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Swedish, derived from the masculine name Carolus which is Latin for Charles, generally meaning 'free man' [1] [2] or 'freeholder'.
Ornella is an Italian feminine given name, probably derived from ornello, "flowering ash tree" (Fraxinus ornus).It was coined by Gabriele D'Annunzio in his 1904 play The Daughter of Iorio [1] [2] [3] and popularized by the fame of singer Ornella Vanoni and, later, of actress Ornella Muti.
Subsequent support for its appeal may have come from the Neo-Latin language (Italian, Spanish or Portuguese) word linda, which is the feminine form of lindo, meaning "beautiful, pretty, cute" (Spanish and Portuguese) and "clean" (Italian). It is also a common name in South Africa, Linda, meaning "Wait" (IsiZulu and IsiXhosa).
Romance languages have a number of shared features across all languages: Romance languages are moderately inflecting, i.e. there is a moderately complex system of affixes (primarily suffixes) that are attached to word roots to convey grammatical information such as number, gender, person, tense, etc. Verbs have much more inflection than nouns.
Alba is a unisex [1] given name of Latin origin meaning "dawn". [2] In Spanish and Italian the name means sunrise or "dawn". [3] In Spanish and Italian speaking countries it is considered to be a female name. It can also be used as a Spanish surname, as in the actress Jessica Alba, or a title, as in the Spanish Dukedom of Alba. It may also be ...
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In Italian, Bettina originated as a diminutive of the names Elisabetta and Benedetta. Benedetta is the Italian feminine form of Benedict , meaning "Blessed," while Elisabetta is the Italian form of Elizabeth , which itself comes from the Hebrew name Elisheva or Elisheba, meaning "my God is an oath".