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Serra (surname)
Serra (, , , ) is Latin for "saw" (a view from a high place, or a saw, see serrated), Italian for "greenhouse", and Sardinian,Pittau, Massimo (2006). ''Dizionario dei cognomi di Sardegna'', v.3, p.190, L'Unione Sarda Galician, Portuguese and Catalan for "mountain range" or "saw". Serra can be used as a given name or as a surname. As a surname, it may refer to: A * Achille Serra (other), multiple people *Adriana Serra (1923–1995), Italian film actress *Adriana Serra Zanetti (born 1976), Italian tennis player *Agustín José Bernaus y Serra (1863–1930), Roman-catholic bishop *Al Garcia-Serra, Cuban-American businessman *Albert Serra (born 1975), Spanish independent filmmaker *Albert Serra (born 1978), Spanish footballer * Alberto Serra (1870–1912), Spanish football pioneer and sports journalist * Alfons Serra (born 1990), Spanish footballer * Angel Serra (born 1951), Cuban rower * Anna Serra (born 1968), Catalan long-distance runner *Antonella Serra Zanetti (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Language
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italy (geographical region), Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a fusional language, highly inflected language, with three distinct grammatical gender, genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Serra
Alberto Serra Guixà (10 October 1870 – 28 July 1912) was a Spanish football pioneer and sports journalist, who is best known for writing and signing the first chronicle of a FC Barcelona match, which appeared on page 7 of La Vanguardia on 9 December 1899. He also wrote and was director of the Los Deportes magazine, but it was in La Vanguardia where Serra exerted his greatest informative display, for almost twenty years, and where he managed to create an outstanding weekly section under the heading "Sports Sheet" in which he became a fervent disseminator of the regulations of football. He is considered "the dean" of sports reporters in Barcelona. As a player, Serra took part in some of the earliest Catalan clubs in existence such as Barcelona Football Club and Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona, serving both teams as a forward. He was a firm promoter of sports activity, so besides football, a sport to which he owes his career, he also practiced and wrote articles about other mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chico Serra
Francisco Adolpho "Chico" Serra (born 3 February 1957) is a Brazilian racing driver. Biography Serra made his mark in International motorsport when he won the 1979 British Formula 3 Championship, one season after his compatriot Nelson Piquet had won the title. His performance caught the eye of Emerson Fittipaldi, he himself a British Formula 3 Championship winner in 1969, who signed him for his Formula One team Fittipaldi. Serra debuted alongside Keke Rosberg on 15 March 1981 in Long Beach, finishing seventh. Serra's result would turn out to be the best one for the team over the rest of the season. In 1982, with Rosberg moving to Williams, Fittipaldi resized the operation, fielding only one car for Serra. Serra scored his first championship point for finishing sixth in the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. At the 1982 Canadian Grand Prix, Serra and countryman Raul Boesel made headlines for having a short scuffle after the qualifying session. Serra was furious at Boesel for blocking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Zendo Tetsugen Serra
Carlo Zendo Tetsugen Serra (born in Milano, Italy in 1953) is an Italian missionary Soto Zen master (''Kokusaifukyoshi'' 国際布教師), in the lineage of Harada Daiun Sogaku (原田祖岳, 1871–1961). He founded his sangha, of the "Sangha della foresta di Bambü" (Bamboo Forest's Sangha) and the monasteries Ensoji il Cerchio in Milan, and Sanbo-ji Tempio dei Tre Gioielli in Berceto Berceto (Parmigiano: , or ; lij, Bercèi) is a village and ''comune'' in Italy, located in the Apennine Mountains on the main road between La Spezia and Parma, in the Taro River valley, in the region of Emilia-Romagna. The main church in the ci .... He also founded the "Scuola Zen di Shiatsu" (Zen Shiatsu School), that aims to use the art of shiatsu treatments as a zen practice. He is one of the buddhist religious authorities in Europe signator of the interreligious Italian "Manifesto della pace" (Peace Manifesto). Biography After a short career in the world of photography and cinema, Carlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brash (footballer)
Brampoque Serra Silva Sá (born 16 November 1996) known as Brash, is a Guinea-Bissauan footballer who plays for Dunston UTS, as a midfielder. Football career On 29 July 2017, Brash made his debut with Real in a 2017–18 Taça da Liga match against Belenenses. On 27 August 2022, Brash made his debut for Dunston UTS in a 2022–23 Northern Premier League match against Worksop Town Worksop Town Football Club is an English football club based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. As of the 2021–22 season the team plays in the . They are nicknamed ''The Tigers'' and play their home games at Sandy Lane in Worksop. History First clu .... References External links * *Portuguese League profile 1996 births Living people Bissau-Guinean men's footballers Men's association football midfielders {{GuineaBissau-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Serra
Barbara Serra (; born 19 August 1974) is an Italian-born British-based broadcast journalist and TV newsreader. Serra studied at the London School of Economics, before becoming a journalist. Serra has worked for the BBC, Sky News and was a presenter for Five News. Since 2006 she has been a presenter and correspondent at Al Jazeera English and since 2007 she also worked as a presenter and commentator with the Italian TV network, RAI. Serra was made a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy by the Italian President and she has been recognised as one of the 20 most high-profile Italian women internationally by Elle magazine. In 2014, Serra wrote one book titled: (Italians Are Not Lazy). In 2020, Serra made the film: ''Fascism in the Family''. She also writes for the Huffington Post. Early life Serra was born in Milan in 1974, with her father native to Sardinia, and her mother from Sicily. From the age of nine, she was raised in Copenhagen in Denmark. As a result of this upbr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonius Serra
Antonius Serra (1610 – October 1669) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Milos (1642–1669). ''(in Latin)''"Bishop Antonius Serra" ''''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved July 21, 2016"Diocese of Milos (Melos)" ''''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved June 16, 2016 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Serra
Antonio Serra was a late 16th-century Italian philosopher and economist in the mercantilist tradition. Biography Little is known about Serra's life. He was born in Cosenza in the late 16th century (the dates of his birth and death are unknownAlessandro Roncaglia, ''The wealth of ideas: a history of economic thought'', Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 48.). When working in Naples, he applied himself to solving the enormous social and economic problems created by the Spanish viceroy system. In 1613 Serra was jailed for unknown reasons but possibly due to his involvement in a conspiracy with the philosopher Tommaso Campanella attempting to free Calabria from the Spanish domination. In his treatise, ''Breve trattato delle cause che possono far abbondare li regni d’oro e d’argento dove non sono miniere'', Serra analysed the causes of the shortage of coin in the Kingdom of Naples and the factors that could have reversed this economic trend *all the economic indicators t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Serra (comics)
Antonio Serra (born 16 February 1963) is an Italian comics writer. Biography Serra was born in Alghero, Sardinia. After some collaborations with amateur publications, in 1991, together with Michele Medda and Bepi Vigna, he created the science fiction series ''Nathan Never'' for Sergio Bonelli Editore Sergio Bonelli Editore (formerly CEPIM and other names) is a publishing house of Italian comics founded in 1940 by Gian Luigi Bonelli (1908–2001). It takes its name from its former president, comic book writer Sergio Bonelli (1932–2011), son of ..., for which he had worked since 1985. He is also the creator of two more science-fiction series, '' Gregory Hunter'', published by Bonelli in 2000–2002, and '' Greystorm'', published by Bonelli in 2010–2011. References * * 1963 births Living people People from Alghero Italian comics writers {{Italy-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoni Serra Serra
Antoni Serra Serra (1708–1755) was a religious writer member of Order of Minims. Serra was born in Sa Pobla. He was in the Convent of Saint Francis of Pauoa of Palma and was a Reader of philosophy and theology, Visitor, Mallorca's Order of Minims General and Provincial Vicar Inquisition Qualifier; Postulator in 1739 of the cause of beatification of Catherine Thomas. He died in Palma, Majorca Palma (; ; also known as ''Palma de Mallorca'', officially between 1983–88, 2006–08, and 2012–16) is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of Mallorc ..., aged about 47. Works * ''De vita moribus et miraculis Catharine Thomas expositio''. Ms. * ''Mística centella de la caridad ideada en el amoroso incendio con que en aras de la caridad ardia siempre el corazón abrasado del gran Padre y Patriarca San Pedro Nolasco''... 1731 * ''Mística carroça de Ezequiel noble sabia universidad. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoni Arabí I Serra
Antoni is a Catalan, Polish, and Slovene given name and a surname used in the eastern part of Spain, Poland and Slovenia. As a Catalan given name it is a variant of the male names Anton and Antonio. As a Polish given name it is a variant of the female names Antonia and Antonina. As a Slovene name it is a variant of the male names Anton, Antonij and Antonijo and the female name Antonija. As a surname it is derived from the Antonius root name. It may refer to: Given name * Antoni Brzeżańczyk, Polish football player and manager * Antoni Derezinski, Northern Irish Strongman * Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect * Antoni Kenar, Polish sculptor * Antoni Lima, Catalan footballer * Antoni Lomnicki, Polish mathematician * Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop * Antoni Niemczak, Polish long-distance runner * Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France * Antoni Porowski, Polish-Canadian chef, actor, and television personality * Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonella Serra Zanetti
Antonella Serra Zanetti (born 25 July 1980; ) is a retired female tennis player from Italy. On 30 January 2006, Serra Zanetti achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 60. On 8 May 2006, she peaked at No. 47 in the doubles rankings. In her career, she won two WTA doubles titles, as well as six singles titles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Personal Antonella was coached by Patricio Remondegui, her favorite surface is hard court. Father Alessandro is in banking; mother Arianna is an art history teacher; older brother Andrea and younger sister Alessia are students. Older sister Adriana Adriana, also spelled Adrianna, is a Latin name and feminine form of Adrian. It originates from present day Italy. Translations *Arabic: أدريان * Belorussian: Адрыяна (Adryjana) *Bulgarian: Адриана (Adriana) *Chinese Simplifi ... also retired as professional tennis player. Antonella Serra Zanetti retired from the professional tour 2009. WTA c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
