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Chiarenza

Chiarenza proper noun: former name of Glarentza, a medieval Frankish fortress and town in Greece.

Proper noun

Chiarenza (plural Chiarenzas)

  1. (historical) Former name of Glarentza, a medieval Frankish fortress and town in Greece.
    • CHIARENZA, a port-town of the north-weſt coaſt of the Morea, oppoſite to the iſland Zant, in the Mediterranean, and ſubject to the Turks...1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 183
  2. A surname from Italian

Forms of Chiarenza

pluralChiarenzas

Origin of Chiarenza

From Italian Chiarenza, from chiarenza, via French from Latin clarentia, from clarus (“clear, bright, famous”) + -entia (“-ence: forming abstract nouns”).

Questions about Chiarenza

What does Chiarenza mean?
Chiarenza means former name of Glarentza, a medieval Frankish fortress and town in Greece.
What part of speech is Chiarenza?
Chiarenza is a proper noun.

Words near Chiarenza in the dictionary

  1. Chiarellas
  2. Chiarelli
  3. Chiarellis
  4. Chiarello
  5. Chiarellos
  6. Chiarenza
  7. Chiarenzas
  8. Chiari
  9. Chiari malformation
  10. Chiari malformations
  11. Chiari-Frommel syndrome

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