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Luis (other)
Luis is a male given name. It can also refer to: * Luis (letter), the second letter of the Ogham alphabet * ''Luis'' (TV series), a short-lived television sitcom starring Luis Guzmán * Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, main airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico * Hurricane Luis, one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season * Luis (footballer) (1946–2024), Luis García Mosquera, Spanish footballer * RJ Luis Jr. (born 2002), American basketball player {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a deri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis (letter)
Luis (ᚂ) is the second letter (Irish language, Irish "letter": sing.''fid'', pl.''feda'') of the Ogham alphabet, derived either from ''luise'' "fire, flame" or from ''lus'' "herb". Its Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European root was either *''leuk-'' 'to shine' or *''leudh-'' 'to grow'. Its phonetic value is [l]. If the letter name follows the same pattern as ''ruise'' to ''Ruis (letter), ruis'', it is likely that the letter was originally named from ''luise'', though different kennings point to both meanings. Interpretation Although the non-arboreal primary meanings of this letter name are well established, one of the arboreal glosses for this name in the ''Auraicept na n-Éces'' is ''cairtheand'' "mountain-ash", i.e. "rowan" (Modern Irish language, Irish ''caorthann''). The associated verse is : ''lí súla'' "lustre of eye" (from the ''Bríatharogam Morann mic Moín''). The Auraincept interprets this as "delightful to the eye is ''luis'', i.e. rowan, owing to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis (TV Series)
''Luis'' is an American sitcom starring Luis Guzmán that aired on Fox from September 19 to October 17, 2003. Scheduled in the Friday night death slot, the series received low ratings and was canceled after four episodes. The series was the first show of the 2003-04 season to be canceled. Cast *Luis Guzmán as Luis * Charlie Day as Richie * Reggie Lee as Zhing Zhang * Wes Ramsey as Greg * Malcolm Barrett as T.K. * Jaclyn DeSantis as Marly * Diana-Maria Riva as Isabella Episodes Reception ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, vi ...'' wrote of the series: "As tasteless as week-old crullers, ''Luis'' is a melting pot of cringe-inducing Ethnic cliches." References External links * 2000s American multi-camera sitcoms 2003 American television series debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport
Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (Spanish: ''Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín'') , previously known as Isla Verde International Airport (Spanish: ''Aeropuerto Internacional de Isla Verde''), is the primary international airport of Puerto Rico serving the capital municipality of San Juan and its metropolitan area since 1955. Named after Luis Muñoz Marín, the first elected governor of the archipelago and island, the 1,600 acres (647 ha) airport is located in the beachfront resort district of Isla Verde in the municipality of Carolina, about east of the Hato Rey business center, Condado resort area, Old San Juan historic quarter, and SIG secondary airport. With 13,247,382 million passengers in 2024, SJU is the busiest airport in Puerto Rico and the insular Caribbean, and the 15th busiest in Latin America. Handling 93% of passenger flow and 90% of air cargo into Puerto Rico, the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport is the 39th busiest airport by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurricane Luis
Hurricane Luis was a long lived and powerful tropical cyclone that was the strongest hurricane to make landfall and the third-most intense hurricane recorded during the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm, along with Humberto, Iris, and Karen, was one of four simultaneous tropical systems in the Atlantic basin. The system formed from a tropical wave, south of Cape Verde islands west of Africa, on August 28, and attained tropical storm status on August 29. The storm reached hurricane status on August 31 and later developed into a Category 4 hurricane. Luis affected the Leeward Islands at this strength from September 4 to September 6. By the time Luis made landfall on Newfoundland, it had weakened down to a Category 1 hurricane and then became extratropical on September 11. Luis caused extensive damage to Antigua, St. Barthelemy, the island of St. Martin and Anguilla as it affected Bermuda. The storm accounted for 19 confirmed deaths, left nearly 20,000 homeless (most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis (footballer)
Luis García Mosquera (13 May 1946 – 12 January 2024), known as just Luis or El Chato, was a Spanish former association football player who played as a defender. He spent most of his career playing for Deportivo La Coruña from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. Career Luis was born in Vivero, Galicia and at 14 years of age, would move to Vizcaya Street at La Coruña. He would play for the Liceo de Monelos in his youth career and would play there for two years. Starting in November 1964, he would play in four seasons within his youth career until being signed to play for Deportivo La Coruña in the summer of 1968. He would make his official debut with the club during the 1968–69 La Liga in a match against Málaga at the Estadio Riazor which would end in a 3–1 defeat for his club. During the season, he would play in over twenty-seven matches as a defender under manager and would play alongside other players such as José Domínguez Rial, José Manuel Sertucha, Antonio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
