Chiarenza

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Chiarenza (plural Chiarenzas)

1. (historical) Former name of Glarentza, a medieval Frankish fortress and town in Greece.
   • 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 183:

     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...

2. A surname from Italian

Italian

Etymology

From chiarenza, from Latin clarentia.

Proper noun

Chiarenza f

1. (historical) Former name of Glarentza, a medieval Frankish fortress and town in Greece

Proper noun

Chiarenza m or f by sense

1. a surname