SFORZA

Specialty Definition: SFORZA

Domain	Definition
Literature	Sforza The founder of the illustrious house which was so conspicuous in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, was the son of a day-labourer. His name was Giacomuzzo Attendolo, changed to Sforza from the following incident: - Being desirous of going to the wars, he consulted his hatchet thus: he flung it against a tree, saying, "If it sticks fast, I will go." It did stick fast, and he enlisted. It was because he threw it with such amazing force that he was called Sforza, the Italian for force. Sforza (in Jerusalem Delivered) of Lombardy. He, with his two brothers, Achilies and Palamedes, were in the squadron of adventurers in the allied Christian army. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Sforza

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Sforza was a ruling family of Renaissance Italy, based in Milan.

The dynasty was founded by Francesco Sforza, who ruled Milan for the first half of the Renaissance era, acquiring the title of Duke from the extinct Visconti family in 1447. While there were many good rulers in the family, there were also a number of despots, many of which were mentally unstable.

This family would later join with the Borgia Family, through the arranged marriage of Lucrezia Borgia to Giovanni Sforza (who was the illegitimate son of Costanzo Sforza).

Ludovico Sforza (a.k.a. Ludovico il Moro, famous also for taking Leonardo da Vinci at his service) was defeated in 1500 by the French army of Louis XII of France - see also Italian Wars.

After the French were driven out by Swiss Mercenries, Maximilian Sforza, son of Ludovico became Duke of Milan, until the French returned under Francis I of France and imprisoned him.

Not to be confused with sforzando, a musical marking.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sforza."

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Date "SFORZA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Crosswords: SFORZA

Specialty definitions using "SFORZA": Grey from Grief ♦ Inventors Punished ♦ Palamedes of Lombardy, Prudent Tree. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SFORZA

Domain	Title
Books	Die Sforza : Bauern, Condottieri, Herzèoge : Geschichte e. Renaissancefamilie (reference) Music and Patronage in the Sforza Court. (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: SFORZA

"SFORZA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SFORZA" is used about 11 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%	11	106,044

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Name Usage Frequency: SFORZA

The following table summarizes the usage of "SFORZA" 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
Sforza	Last name	300	29,669
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Usage in Company Names: SFORZA

Country	Name
USA	Sforza Enterprises Inc.
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Expression: SFORZA

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "SFORZA": sforza-bellini, Sforza-castle, Sforza-cesarini.
	Ending with "SFORZA": Cavalli-sforza.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SFORZA

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
sforza	13
cavalli sforza	6
caterina sforza	4
casa famiglia riario sforza sisto	3
carlo sforza	3
allele cavalli sforza	3
francesco sforza	2
ludovico sforza	2
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Derivations: SFORZA

Derivations
	Words beginning with "SFORZA": sforzandi, sforzando, sforzandos, sforzato, sforzatos. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SFORZA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-o-r-s-z"
	-1 letter: faros, sofar, zarfs.
	-2 letters: arfs, faro, fora, oafs, oars, osar, soar, sofa, sora, zarf.
	-3 letters: arf, ars, azo, far, fas, for, fro, oaf, oar, ora, ors, ras, zoa.
	-4 letters: ar, as, fa, of, or, os, so.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-o-r-s-z"
	+2 letters: sforzato.
	+3 letters: forzandos, sforzandi, sforzando, sforzatos.
	+4 letters: factorizes, formalizes, sforzandos.
	+5 letters: benzofurans, formalizers.
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