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BERNARDO

"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)


Specialty Definition: BERNARDO

DomainDefinition

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.

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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).

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Modern Usage: BERNARDO

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: BERNARDO

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bernardo Bertolucci: The Cinema of Ambiguity (Twayne's Filmmakers Series) (reference)

  • Debts, Dowries, Donkeys: The Diary of Niccolo Machiavelli's Father, Messer Bernardo, in Quattrocento Florence (reference)

  • The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon (Aspects of Portugal) (reference)

  • Mein Abenteuer bin ich : Hans-Dieter Schèutt im Gesprèach mit Isabelle Adjani, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Harry Kupfer, Sting, Klaus Lèowitsch, Werner Schneyder, Thomas Langhoff, Rigoberta Menchâu, Bernardo Bertolucci, Heino Falcke, Andrea Breth, Klaus Poche, Istvâ (reference)

  • Secret Missions to Cuba: Fidel Castro, Bernardo Benes, and Cuban Miami (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  • A Bernardo Bertolucci Double Feature: George DeLerue's The Conformist, Ennio Morricone's A Man's Tragedy [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

    (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: BERNARDO

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Non-Fiction Usage: BERNARDO

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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.

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Usage Frequency: BERNARDO

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%4352,181

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: BERNARDO

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BernardoFirst name Male10,000664
BernardoLast name2,0006,006
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: BERNARDO

"BERNARDO" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to bear", "to be brave", "hardy".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "BERNARDO."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
BernatMaleCatalanBernard
BernadineFemaleEnglishBernard
BernardMaleEnglishN/A
BernardineFemaleEnglishBernard
BernadetteFemaleFrenchBernard
BernardMaleFrenchN/A
BernardineFemaleFrenchBernard
BernhardMaleGermanBernard
BernátMaleHungarianBernard
BernardettaFemaleItalianBernard
BernardinoMaleItalianBernardo
BernardoMaleItalianBernard
BernardinoMalePortugueseBernardo
BernardoMalePortugueseBernard
BerntMaleScandinavianBernard
BernardinoMaleSpanishBernardo
BernardoMaleSpanishBernard
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: BERNARDO

Expression using "BERNARDO": Bernardo Bertolucci. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BERNARDO

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

antarctica base bernardo ohiggins

265

bernardo church rancho

12

rancho bernardo inn

160

bernardo campo são

11

bernardo paul

139

rancho bernardo hotel

11

rancho bernardo

97

bernardo paul picture

10

rancho bernardo high school

65

bernardo marzano

10

bernardo

45

bernardo guimarães

10

bernardo sandal

33

bernardo heights middle school

9

bernardo homolka karla paul

32

bernardo são

9

bernardo higgins o

32

rancho bernardo california

9

bernardo chile san

26

bernardo perros san

9

bernardo shoes

25

bernardo graciliano ramos são

9

rancho bernardo ca

22

bernardo business in large rancho

9

bernardo perro san

22

bernardo de galvez

9

bernardo bertolucci

18

bernardo gui

9

rancho bernardo real estate

14

bernardo campo sao

8

rancho bernardo chamber of commerce

14

rancho bernardo winery

8

anton bernardo

14

bernardo winery

8

bernardo de economia gobierno higgins o

13

bernardo cafe

8

san bernardo

13

bernardo sao

8

bernardo corradi

12

bernardo homolka

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BERNARDO

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.

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Alternative Orthography: BERNARDO


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 45 52 4E 41 52 44 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    .-.    -.    .-    .-.    -..    ---

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000101 01010010 01001110 01000001 01010010 01000100 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#82 &#78 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#79

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3639524835523849

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INDEX

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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