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Smith (metalwork)
A metalsmith or simply smith is a craftsperson fashioning useful items (for example, tools, kitchenware, tableware, jewelry, armor and weapons) out of various metals. Smithing is one of the oldest metalworking occupations. Shaping metal with a hammer (forging) is the archetypical component of smithing. Often the hammering is done while the metal is hot, having been heated in a forge. Smithing can also involve the other aspects of metalworking, such as refining metals from their ores (traditionally done by smelting), casting it into shapes ( founding), and filing to shape and size. The prevalence of metalworking in the culture of recent centuries has led '' Smith'' and its equivalents in various languages to be a common occupational surname (German Schmidt or Schmied, Portuguese Ferreiro, Ferreira, French Lefèvre, Spanish Herrero, Italian Fabbri, Ferrari, Ferrero, Ukrainian Koval etc.). As a suffix, ''-smith'' connotes the meaning of a specialized craftsperson—for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damascus Bladesmith
Damascus ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam. Known colloquially in Syria as () and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine" ( ), Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world. Situated in southwestern Syria, Damascus is the center of a large metropolitan area. Nestled among the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean on a plateau above sea level, Damascus experiences an arid climate because of the rain shadow effect. The Barada River flows through Damascus. Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. First settled in the 3rd millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750. After the victory of the Abbasid dynasty, the seat of Islamic power was moved to Baghdad. Damascus saw its importance decline throughout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith (surname)
Smith is an occupational surname originating in England. It is the most prevalent surname in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and the fifth most common surname in Ireland. In the United States, the surname Smith is particularly prevalent among those of English, Scottish, and Irish descent, but is also a common surname among African-Americans, which can be attributed either to African slaves having been given the surname of their masters, or to being an occupational name, as some southern African-Americans took this surname to reflect their or their father's trade. 2,442,977 Americans shared the surname Smith at the time of the 2010 census, and more than 500,000 people shared it in the United Kingdom as of 2006. At the turn of the 20th century, the surname was sufficiently prevalent in England to have prompted the statement: "Common to every village in England, north, south, east, and west";Bardsley. ''English and Welsh Surnames''. 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connotation
A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection. For example, a stubborn person may be described as being either ''strong-willed'' or ''pig-headed''; although these have the same literal meaning (''stubborn''), ''strong-willed'' connotes admiration for the level of someone's will (a positive connotation), while ''pig-headed'' connotes frustration in dealing with someone (a negative connotation). Usage "Connotation" branches into a mixture of different meanings. These could include the contrast of a word or phrase with its primary, literal meaning (known as a denotation), with what that word or phrase specifically denotes. The connotation essentially relates to how anything may be associated with a word or phras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional endings) or lexical information ( derivational/lexical suffixes)''.'' Inflection changes the grammatical properties of a word within its syntactic category. Derivational suffixes fall into two categories: class-changing derivation and class-maintaining derivation. Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, suffixes are called affirmatives, as they can alter the form of the words. In Indo-European studies, a distinction is made between suffixes and endings (see Proto-Indo-European root). A word-final segment that is somewhere between a free morpheme and a bound morpheme is known as a suffixoidKremer, Marion. 1997. ''Person reference and gender in translation: a contrastive investigation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koval (surname)
Koval () is a Ukrainian surname. The word means "blacksmith", making "Koval" the equivalent of "Smith" in the English-speaking world The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English language, English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early 2000s, between one and two billion people spoke English, making it the ....Ganzhina, I. M. (2001''Словарь современных русских фамилий'' Moscow: Astrel. p. 260. . Notable people with the name include: * Anastasia Koval (born 1992), Ukrainian artistic gymnast * Andriy Koval (born 1983), Ukrainian football player * Denis Koval (born 1991), Russian speed skater * George Koval (1913–2006), spy for the Soviet Union in the United States * Ihor Koval (born 1955), Ukrainian historian and political scholar * Ivan Koval-Samborsky (1893–1962), Ukrainian stage and film actor * J. J. Koval (born 1992), American soccer player * Maksym Koval (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrero (surname)
Ferrero ( Italian: , Spanish: ) is a surname of Italian (from Piedmont) and Spanish origin that means 'smith', a person who works with iron, in parallel with surnames like Ferraro, Ferrari and Smith. Notable people with the surname Ferrero include: * Alexis Ferrero (born 1979), Argentine footballer; *Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora (1804–1878), Italian general and statesman; * Benita Ferrero-Waldner (born 1948), Austrian diplomat and politician; * Carlos Ferrero (1941–2025), Peruvian politician; * Daniela Ferrero, Uruguayan and American mathematician; * Edward Ferrero (1831–1899), Union general famous for his role in the Battle of the Crater; * Enzo Ferrero (born 1953), Argentine footballer; * Facundo Ferrero (born 1995), Argentine footballer; * Francis Ferrero (born 1972), Argentine footballer; * Giovanni Ferrero (born 1964), managing director of Ferrero SpA, son of Michele Ferrero; * Guglielmo Ferrero (1871–1942), Italian historian, journalist, and novelist; * Juan Ferrero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrari (surname)
Ferrari is an Italian occupational surname, the plural form of Ferraro, meaning blacksmith. People with the surname * Alex Ferrari (footballer) (born 1994), Italian footballer * Alex Ferrari (singer) (born 1982), Brazilian singer * Alfredo Baldomir Ferrari (1884–1948), Uruguayan politician * Alfredo Ferrari (1932–1956), known as Dino, automotive engineer and son of Enzo Ferrari * Amato Ferrari (born 1966), founder of Italian racing team AF Corse * Andrea Carlo Ferrari (1850–1921), Italian Catholic Cardinal * Belinda Ferrari, Australian microbiologist * Benedetto Ferrari (c. 1603–1681), Italian composer * Carlos Ferrari (playwright) (1931–2025), Argentine-Puerto Rican playwright, actor and theatrical director * Davide Ferrari (born 1992) Italian footballer * Defendente Ferrari (c. 1480 – c. 1540), Italian painter * Dino Ferrari (1914–2000), Italian painter * Domenico Ferrari (1722–1780), Italian violinist and composer * Enzo Ferrari (1898–1988), founder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabbri (surname)
Fabbri is an Italian surname. Notable people with the name include: * Adriana Bisi Fabbri (1881–1918), Italian painter * Agenore Fabbri (1911–1998), Italian sculptor and painter * Alan Fabbri (born 1979), Italian politician * Alejandro Fabbri (born 1982), Argentine tennis player * Alessandro Fabbri (1877–1922), commander of the Otter Cliffs Radio Station * Alessandro Fabbri (footballer) (born 1990), Italian footballer * Alessandro Fabbri (screenwriter) (born 1978), Italian screenwriter * Alex Fabbri (born 1998), Sammarinese motorcycle racer * Alicia Fabbri (born 2003), Canadian ice dancer * Andrea Fabbri (born 1992), Italian ice dancer * Camila Fabbri (born 1989), Argentine writer, playwright and actress * Cora Fabbri (1871–1892), American poet * Daniele Fabbri or Daniele Luttazzi (born 1961), Italian comedian, writer, satirist, illustrator and singer/songwriter * Davidé Fabbri, Italian comic book artist * Diego Fabbri (1911–1980), Italian playwright * Edda Fabbri (born 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herrero
Herrero is a Spanish-language occupational surname literally meaning "blacksmith". The feminine form is Herrera. People with this surname include: * Abel Herrero (born 1971), Cuban artist * Abel Herrero (born 1969), Texas politician * Álvaro Peña Herrero (born 1991), Spanish footballer *André Herrero (born 1938), French rugby union player * Antonia Herrero (1897–1978), Argentine actress * Bruno Herrero Arias (born 1985), Spanish footballer * Carlos Ruiz Herrero (born 1948), Spanish footballer * David Herrero (born 1979), Spanish cyclist * Gerardo Herrero (born 1953), Spanish filmmaker * Gonzalo Herrero (born 1989), Spanish footballer * Jesús María Herrero (born 1984), Spanish footballer * José María Maravall Herrero (born 1942), Spanish academic and politician * José Ramón Herrero Merediz (1931–2016), Spanish politician *Liliana Herrero Liliana Herrero is an Argentine musician born in 1948 in Villaguay, Entre Ríos. In 1966, she moved to Rosario, Santa Fe, in order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lefèvre
Lefebvre (; commonly in English-speaking countries, as well as or ) is a common northern French surname. Alternative forms include ''Lefebvre'', ''le Febvre'', ''Le Febvre'', ''Lefèbvre'', ''le Fèbvre'', ''Le Fèbvre'', as well as the common variant Lefèvre (''le Fèvre'', ''Le Fèvre''; anglicized ''Lefevre'', ''le Fevre'', ''Le Fevre'', ''LeFevre'', ''LeFever''). Dialectal variants include Lefevere (Belgium), Lefebre, Lefeuvre (western France), and Lefébure (northern France and Normandy). The name derives from ''faber'', the Latin word for "craftsman", "worker"; used in Late Latin in Gaul to mean smith. In the Occitan and Arpitan extension area, the variation is ''Fabre'', ''Favre'', ''Faure'', ''Favret'', ''Favrette'' or ''Dufaure'' and in Corsica ''Fabri'' (cf. Italian '' Fabbri'', '' Fabri''). In Celtic-speaking Brittany, the corresponding name is ''Le Goff(ic)'', with the article ''le'' to translate Breton ''ar''. Many northern French surnames (especially in Normandy) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferreira (surname)
Ferreira (Latin ''ferraria and ferrus)'' is a Portuguese language, Portuguese and Galician language, Galician toponymic and occupational surname, meaning "iron mine" (name of several locations in Portugal) and also the feminine variant of "blacksmith" ("ferreiro"), related to ironworks. The variants Ferreiro, Ferreiró, Ferreiros, Ferro, or Ferraria are less common. Like Smith (surname), Smith in English or Schmidt (surname), Schmidt in German, Favre in France, Kovalenko in Ukraine, Kuznetsov in Russia, Ferrari (surname), Ferrari in Italy, Kowalski in Poland, this Portuguese equivalent surname is one of the most common in the country. This surname exists mainly in Lusophone countries, South Africa, and also, via Galician migration, in Spanish speaking countries and numerous other nations around the world. Jewish Origin Ferreira is also a Sephardic Jews, Sephardic Jewish surname, originating from the settlement of Jews in the Iberian peninsula due to the History of the Jews in the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferreiro
Ferreiro is a surname of Galician- Portuguese origin, equivalent to English Smith. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfredo Mario Ferreiro (1899–1959), Uruguayan poet * Celso Emilio Ferreiro (1912–1979), Spanish writer and politician * David Ferreiro (born 1988), Spanish professional footballer * Dora Ferreiro (1916–2011), Argentine film actress * Emilia Ferreiro (1937–2023), Argentine pedagogue, psychologist, and writer *Franco Ferreiro Franco Ferreiro (born July 1, 1984) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. He qualified for the 2009 French Open, but lost to Feliciano López Feliciano López Díaz-Guerra (; born 20 September 1981) is a Spanish former professiona ... (born 1984), Brazilian retired tennis player * Iván Ferreiro (born 1970), Spanish singer * Mario Aníbal Ferreiro (born 1959), Paraguayan television host and politician * Martín Ferreiro (born 1997), Argentine field hockey player * Roberto Ferreiro (1935–2017), Argentine profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
