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"BERNARDO" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to bear", "to be brave", "hardy". |
Date "BERNARDO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bernardo in Dibdin's bootlegbooks (a romance), is meant for Joseph Hazlewood, antiquary and critic (1811). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BERNARDO |
| Specialty definitions using "BERNARDO": Amadis of Gaul. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BERNARDO" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (Bernard, Bernardine). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Bernardo Gui has spoken: she is a witch. (Name der Rose, Der; writing credit: Andrew Birkin; Gérard Brach) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bernardo Marques (1960) San Bernardo (2000) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Guinea-Bissau | In late 1980, the government was overthrown in a relatively bloodless coup led by Prime Minister and former armed forces commander Joao Bernardo Vieira. (references) |
Guinea-Bissau | From November 1980 to May 1984, power was held by a provisional government responsible to a Revolutionary Council headed by President Joao Bernardo Vieira. (references) | |
Chile | Intermittent warfare continued until 1817, when an army led by Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile's most renowned patriot, and José San Martín, hero of Argentine independence, crossed the Andes into Chile and defeated the royalists. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brazil | In June a trial court absolved four uniformed police officers accused in the 1999 double homicide that took place in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo. (references) |
Peru | There were no new developments in torture cases from 1999 and 2000 involving the following victims: Catalino Daga Ruiz, Bernardo Daga Ruiz, Mario Jimenez Roque; Julio Armando Uribe, Moises Paco Mayhua, and Victor Valle Cabello. (references) | |
Brazil | In February two Sao Paulo police officers arrested in December 2000 on the accusation of having killed four persons and injuring three in a bakery in Sao Bernardo do Campo were charged with homicide, relieved of duty, and imprisoned. (references) | |
Political Economy | Guinea-Bissau | Guinea-Bissau* continued its transition to a multiparty democracy following the end of the 1998-99 bloody civil war that led to the ouster of President Bernardo Viera by a military junta. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BERNARDO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BERNARDO" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 43 | 52,181 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BERNARDO" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bernardo | First name Male | 10,000 | 664 |
| Bernardo | Last name | 2,000 | 6,006 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "BERNARDO" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to bear", "to be brave", "hardy". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "BERNARDO." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Bernat | Male | Catalan | Bernard |
| Bernadine | Female | English | Bernard |
| Bernard | Male | English | N/A |
| Bernardine | Female | English | Bernard |
| Bernadette | Female | French | Bernard |
| Bernard | Male | French | N/A |
| Bernardine | Female | French | Bernard |
| Bernhard | Male | German | Bernard |
| Bernát | Male | Hungarian | Bernard |
| Bernardetta | Female | Italian | Bernard |
| Bernardino | Male | Italian | Bernardo |
| Bernardo | Male | Italian | Bernard |
| Bernardino | Male | Portuguese | Bernardo |
| Bernardo | Male | Portuguese | Bernard |
| Bernt | Male | Scandinavian | Bernard |
| Bernardino | Male | Spanish | Bernardo |
| Bernardo | Male | Spanish | Bernard |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "BERNARDO": Bernardo Bertolucci. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-n-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: adorner, arbored, bandore, boarder, brander, broaden, broader, readorn, reboard. | |
-2 letters: adorer, bander, barred, barren, bonder, borane, border, darner, droner, errand, reborn, roared, roband. | |
-3 letters: abode, adobe, adore, adorn, anode, arbor, ardeb, ardor, baned, barde, bared, barer, baron, barre, beano, beard, board, boned, boner, bored, borer, borne, brand, bread, broad, darer, debar, denar, dobra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-n-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: cornbread. | |
+2 letters: borderland, cornbreads, linerboard, reboarding. | |
+3 letters: barnstormed, borderlands, centerboard, fingerboard, linerboards, snowboarder. | |
+4 letters: backgrounder, banderillero, brainstormed, centerboards, decarbonizer, dermabrasion, fingerboards, rhabdomancer, snowboarders. | |
+5 letters: backgrounders, banderilleros, breadboarding, brokenhearted, decarbonizers, decerebration, dermabrasions, groundbreaker, nondeferrable, rekeyboarding, rhabdomancers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 52 4E 41 52 44 4F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .-. -. .- .-. -.. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01010010 01001110 01000001 01010010 01000100 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E R N A R D O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0052 004E 0041 0052 0044 004F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3639524835523849 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Names: Derived from 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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