When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Mare Nostrum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Nostrum

    Note, however, that the Sea is called Mare Internum, "Inner Sea," on this map. Mare Nostrum (/ ˌ m ɑː r ɪ ˈ n ɒ s t r ə m /; [1] Latin: "Our Sea") was a Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea. In Classical Latin, it would have been pronounced [ˈma.rɛ ˈnɔs.t̪rʊ̃ː], and in Ecclesiastical Latin, it is pronounced [ˈmaː.rɛ ˈnɔs ...

  3. C'è la luna mezzo mare - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C'è_la_luna_mezzo_mare

    Cc'è la luna n menzu ô mari" (Sicilian for 'There's the moon amid the sea'), mostly known in the English-speaking world as "C'è la luna mezzo mare", "Luna mezz'o mare" and other similar titles, is a comic Sicilian song with worldwide popularity, traditionally styled as a brisk 6 8 tarantella. The song portrays a mother-daughter "coming of ...

  4. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_profanity

    The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and languages of Italy, such as the Tuscan dialect, which had a very strong influence in modern standard Italian, and is widely known to be based on Florentine language. [1]

  5. List of Latin phrases (M) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(M)

    mare clausum: closed sea: In law, a sea under the jurisdiction of one nation and closed to all others. Mare Ditat, Rosa Decorat: The sea enriches, the rose adorns: Motto of Montrose, Angus and HMS Montrose: mare liberum: free sea: In law, a sea open to international shipping navigation. mare nostrum: our sea

  6. Torna a Surriento - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torna_a_Surriento

    Vide 'o mare quant'è bello! Spira tantu sentimento, Comme tu a chi tiene mente, Ca scetato 'o faje sunnà. Guarda, guà chistu ciardino; Siente, siè 'sti sciure 'arancio: 'Nu prufumo accussì fino Dinto 'o core se ne va. E tu dice: "Io parto, addio!" T'alluntane da 'stu core. Da 'sta terra de ll'ammore Tiene 'o core 'e nun turnà? Ma nun me ...

  7. Velia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velia

    The site of the acropolis of ancient Elea was once a promontory called Castello a Mare, meaning "castle on the sea" in Italian. It now lies inland and was renamed Castellammare della Bruca in the Middle Ages. The city later developed on the coastal plain below.

  8. 75 Bellissima Italian Baby Girl Names - AOL

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/50-bellissima-italian-baby...

    Here, a stellar (sorry, we had to) Italian name with a celestial meaning of “star.” 49. Patrizia. This peppy Italian name of Latin origin rolls off the tongue and boasts a loft meaning of ...

  9. Feast of the Seven Fishes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Seven_Fishes

    The Feast of the Seven Fishes (Italian: Festa dei sette pesci) is an Italian American celebration of Christmas Eve with dishes of fish and other seafood. [1] [2] Christmas Eve is a vigil or fasting day, and the abundance of seafood reflects the observance of abstinence from meat until the feast of Christmas Day itself.