Instead it could as easily mean " wild ", as in a wild flower, as it still does in its French and Italian cognates, for example.

The island was probably given its name because of the numerous wild goats living on it ( capra means " goat " in Italian ).

* ager " field " > campus, originally " wild field " ( French / Romansh champ, Italian / Spanish / Portuguese campo, Occitan / Catalan camp, Romanian câmp ; but Galician agra, agrela " common field ", Romanian dial.

In many countries, boar are farmed for their meat, and in countries such as France and Italy, for example, boar ( sanglier in French, " cinghiale " in Italian ) may often be found for sale in butcher shops or offered in restaurants ( although the consumption of wild boar meat has been linked to transmission of Hepatitis E in Japan ).

The gardens now boast a fabulous collection of aged and colossal rhododendrons and camellias, a series of lakes fed by a ram pump over a hundred years old, highly productive flower and vegetable gardens, an Italian garden, and a stunning wild area filled with primaeval-looking sub-tropical tree ferns called " The Jungle ".

* Jolly ( Italian, Romanian ) — joker or wild card

The parterre has 24 square beds with Irish yews at the corners ; the Italian garden has a large ornamental pool enclosed by yew hedges and set about with statues ; beyond, is a wild garden, with lime-tree avenues, shrubs, a stream and pond.

The island also hosts the only Italian population of wild goats.

Bettino Craxi called Mario Chiesa mariuolo, or " villain ", a " wild splinter " of the otherwise clean Italian Socialist Party.

Italian chef and restaurateur Antonio Carluccio has described it as representing " the wild mushroom par excellence ", and hails it as the most rewarding of all fungi in the kitchen for its taste and versatility.

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During the Italian Renaissance, the formalized, civilizing imprint of human control over wild nature expressed in terracing that was combined with stairs and water features, drew villa patrons and garden designers to escarpments that surveyed a handsome prospect.

His wild humor and intense teaching style, often punctuated by unusual physicality ( standing on a table to shout lines by Walt Whitman ) and outbursts of vocal performance often drawn from Italian opera, drew non-English majors and alumni.

It is also widely known for hunting, especially of the wild boar, and for sausages and ham made from wild boar and pork, to the point that Norcia has given its name to such products: in Italian, norcineria.

The Fiero — meaning " proud " in Italian and " wild ", " fierce ", or " ferocious " in Spanish — was designed by George Milidrag and Hulki Aldikacti as a Pontiac sports car.

" Mah Nà Mah Nà " debuted as part of Umiliani's soundtrack for the Italian mondo film Svezia, inferno e paradiso ( Sweden: Heaven and Hell Hell and Heaven ) ( 1968 ), a pseudo-documentary about wild sexual activity and other behaviour in Sweden.

It is generally from the Northern Italian region of Piedmont, although it is eaten all over Italy, where it is served with wild berries, caramel, chocolate sauce or fruit coulis.

" In these poetic metaphors may be found an echo of Pope Leo X's engagement in the hunting of wild boars while residing at a hunting lodge in the Italian hills during the spring of 1520.

is a wild west-themed card game similar to a spaghetti western designed by Emiliano Sciarra and released by Italian publisher daVinci Editrice in 2002.

( Due to the limited resources of the 40's and 50's the Italian Neo realists & French New Wave had evolved around the approach of shooting wild synch or " Noisy-synch " and then completely post-replacing all sound & dialog.

It chronicles the life of an Italian family, the Caratis, but focuses primarily on two brothers, Matteo ( Alessio Boni ) and Nicola ( Luigi Lo Cascio ), documenting their journey from the prime of their wild youth in the mid-1960s counterculture, to parenthood and retirement in the early 2000s.

In Sicily, where the prickly pear fruit is known as ficudinnia ( the Italian name being fico d ' India ), the cactus grows wild and cultivated to heights of 12 – 16 feet ( 4 – 5 meters ).

* mārēs " males " (< mās ) > māsculī, a Classical synonym ; diminutive of mās ( French mâle, Italian maschio, Portuguese / Spanish macho, Catalan mascle " male ", Romanian mascur " barrow ( castrated boar )" and mare " big ")

Il Porcellino ( Italian " piglet ") is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar.

Tacca's bronze, which has eclipsed the Roman marble that served as model, was originally intended for the Boboli Garden, then moved to the Mercato Nuovo in Florence, Italy ; the fountain was placed originally facing east, in via Calimala, in front of the pharmacy that by association gained the name Farmacia del Cinghiale, which is Italian for " boar ".

Detailed analysis of call similarity suggests that the Asiatic and Ethiopian races diverged from the western subspecies early in evolutionary history, and that Italian Red-billed Choughs are more closely allied to the North African subspecies than to those of the rest of Europe.

Several closely related species were formerly considered to be subspecies of the Great Crested Newt: the Italian Crested Newt ( Triturus carnifex ), the Danube Crested Newt ( Triturus dobrogicus ) and the Southern Crested Newt ( Triturus karelinii ).

At present this subspecies is the second most popular among beekeepers ( after the Italian bee ).

The previously recognized subspecies Zamenis longissimus romana found in southern Italy and Sicily recently has been elevated to the status of a separate new species, Zamenis lineatus ( Italian Aesculapian Snake ).

* Italian bee-the most well known honey bee subspecies

The Italian wolf, which occurs in the Italian Peninsula, Switzerland and Southern France, was classed by naturalist Giuseppe Altobello as a distinct subspecies in 1921, on account of its lower hind quarters, and its " typical gray-brownish coat and a black stripe on the frontal part of the anterior legs.

There were also smaller factions within the Italian Fascist movement, such as the clerical Fascists, who sought to shift Italian Fascism from its anti-Catholic roots to accepting Catholicism.

The battente, called " chitarra battente " in Italian, is generally smaller than a classical guitar and usually played with four or five single or double course metal strings of equal gauge.

Italy has a smaller number of global multinational corporations than other economies of comparable size, but there is a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, as in the Northern " industrial triangle " ( Milan-Turin-Genoa ), where there is an area of intense industrial and machinery production, notably in their several industrial districts, which are the backbone of the Italian industry.

Among Alberti's smaller studies, pioneering in their field, were a treatise in cryptography, De componendis cifris, and the first Italian grammar.

During the War, some 500 Slovenes served as volunteers in the Serbian army, while a smaller group led by Captain Ljudevit Pivko, served as volunteers in the Italian Army.

The Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), directed by Giovanni Pastrone, was the first popular film to use dolly shots, which in fact were originally called " Cabiria movements " by contemporary filmmakers influenced by the film ; however, some smaller American and English films had used the technique prior to Cabiria, as well as Yevgeni Bauer's The Child of the Big City, released a month prior to Cabiria.

Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts.

A small number of the population spoke Croatian ( around 1. 3 % in 1911 ), and the city also counted several other smaller ethnic communities: Czechs, Istro-Romanians, Serbs and Greeks, which mostly assimilated either to the Italian or Slovene-speaking community.

During the 19th century many of the smaller German and Italian states were ruled by Dukes or Grand Dukes.

Piedmontese troops occupied the smaller Italian states and the Legations, and the French were unwilling to pressure them to withdraw and allow the restoration of the old order, while the Austrians no longer had the power to compel it.

A number of smaller theatres catered for operetta, a field in which Offenbach was then paramount, while the Théâtre Italien specialised in second-rate Italian opera.

Bruto ( original Italian name ; he has no English name ) is Ellsworth's somewhat smaller adoptive son and Mickey Mouse's sidekick in numerous Italian stories.

In the enfilade of smaller rooms alongside the skylight rooms the Italian and Spanish fine art of the 15th-17th centuries, including Michelangelo's Crouching Boy and paintings by El Greco.

Similar but smaller or shorter passion processions are held in many other Sicilian cities, like Erice and Caltanissetta, but also in various Southern Italian cities, like Salerno and Taranto.

The smaller planes are FIAT CR. 32 of the Italian XVI Gruppo Autonomo Cucaracha.

In 1526, Pope Clement VII, alarmed at the growing power of the Empire, formed the League of Cognac against Charles V, allying himself, the Republic of Venice, Republic of Florence, and a number of smaller Italian states with France.

Leghorn is home to the Italian Naval Academy as well as several smaller colleges.

Whereas Britain and France still faced a Germany which had kept about 80 percent of its industrial and economic potential and thus could attempt a revanche in a matter of years, Italy had definitively rid itself of its century-old enemy: instead of the Austro-Hungarian Empire there were now a number of smaller states, none of which could pose a credible threat, and some of them could even fall within the Italian sphere of influence.

In February, 1594 Sigismund Báthory announced that his country would join the anti-Ottoman alliance formed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, Philip II of Spain and many smaller Italian and German states.

Some of the smaller islands were occupied by the French and British, but Rhodes remained under Italian occupation.

The “ Age of the Condottieri ” began in 1494, with the first, great foreign invasion in a century: the French king, Charles VIII's royal army matched the divided Italian city-states and their smaller condottieri armies.

In the following years, Martini returned with a smaller sponsorship program, restricted to the Italian Rally Championship, which the Martini Racing driver, Gianfranco Cunico, won from 1994 to 1996 with a Jolly Club Ford Escort Cosworth.