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Brandão Vs
Brandão (), in English sometimes ''Brandao'' (without the obligatory tilde), is a Portuguese language surname or given name and a place name. It may refer to: Places * Bueno Brandão, Brazil * Caldas Brandão, Brazil * Milton Brandão, Brazil * Paços de Brandão, Portugal * Porto Brandão, Portugal People *Antonio Bezerra Brandão, Brazilian footballer *Avelar Brandão Vilela (1912–1986), Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church *Brandão (footballer, born 1941), José Cândido de Campos, Brazilian footballer *Carlos Brandão (born 1958), Brazilian politician *Carlos Fernandes (footballer, born 1978), Carlos Miguel Brandão Fernandes (born 1978), Portuguese footballer *Celso Brandão (born 1951), Brazilian photographer *Diego Brandão, Brazilian mixed martial artist *Brandão (footballer, born 1980), Evaeverson Lemos da Silva (born 1980), known as "Brandão", Brazilian footballer *Evandro Brandão, a Portuguese footballer *Fernanda Brandão, a Brazilian singer and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilde
The tilde (, also ) is a grapheme or with a number of uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish , which in turn came from the Latin , meaning 'title' or 'superscription'. Its primary use is as a diacritic (accent) in combination with a base letter. Its freestanding form is used in modern texts mainly to indicate approximation. History Use by medieval scribes The tilde was originally one of a variety of marks written over an omitted letter or several letters as a scribal abbreviation (a "mark of contraction"). Thus, the commonly used words ''Anno Domini'' were frequently abbreviated to ''Ao Dñi'', with an elevated terminal with a contraction mark placed over the "n". Such a mark could denote the omission of one letter or several letters. This saved on the expense of the scribe's labor and the cost of vellum and ink. Medieval European charters written in Latin are largely made up of such abbreviated words with contraction marks and other abbreviations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
