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Claudia

fem. proper name, from Latin Claudius (m.).

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Claudia (gens)

The gens Claudia , sometimes written Clodia, was one of the most prominent patrician houses at Rome. The gens traced its origin to the earliest days of the Roman Republic. The first of the Claudii to obtain the consulship was Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis, in 495 BC, and from that time its members frequently held the highest offices of the state, both under the Republic and in imperial times.

Plebeian Claudii are found fairly early in Rome's history. Some may have been descended from members of the family who had passed over to the plebeians, while others were probably the descendants of freedmen of the gens.

In his life of the emperor Tiberius, who was a scion of the Claudii, the historian Suetonius gives a summary of the gens, and says, "as time went on it was honoured with twenty-eight consulships, five dictatorships, seven censorships, six triumphs, and two ovations." Writing several decades after the fall of the so-called " Julio-Claudian dynasty", Suetonius took care to mention both the good and wicked deeds attributed to members of the family.

The patrician Claudii were noted for their pride and arrogance, and intense hatred of the commonalty. In his History of Rome, Niebuhr writes,

That house during the course of centuries produced several very eminent, few great men; hardly a single noble-minded one. In all ages it distinguished itself alike by a spirit of haughty defiance, by disdain for the laws, and iron hardness of heart.

During the Republic, no patrician Claudius adopted a member of another gens; the emperor Claudius was the first who broke this custom, by adopting Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, afterwards the emperor Nero.

Claudia (The Vampire Chronicles)

Claudia is a fictional character in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles series. She is one of the main characters in Interview with the Vampire (1976), the first novel in the series. She also features in The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, The Vampire Armand and Merrick.

Cláudia

Cláudia is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil.

Claudia (Roman legend)

Claudia was an ancient Roman Vestal Virgin and the daughter of Appius Claudius Pulcher. She intervened to save her father from attack by a group of plebeians. The crowd attempted to drag him from his car during the celebration of his triumph, but Claudia interposed herself between her father and the attackers and accompanied her father up to the capital.

Claudia (film)

Claudia is an East German film. It was released in 1959.

Claudia (crater)

Claudia is a small (700 meter) crater that defines the prime meridian of asteroid 4 Vesta in the coordinate system used by the Dawn mission team, NASA, and the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, though it is not accepted by the IAU as a whole. It is located at 1.6°S and 4.0°W .

Claudia was chosen because it is small, sharply defined, easy to find, and near the equator. The prime meridian runs 4° to the west. This results in a more logical set of mapping quadrants than the IAU coordinate system, which drifts over time due to an error in calculating the position of the pole, and is based on the 200 km Olbers Regio, which is so poorly defined that it is not even visible to the Dawn spacecraft.

The crater was named after the Roman Vestal Virgin Claudia on 2011 September 30.

Claudia (play)

Claudia, a story about a naive young wife's maturing, is a 1941 play by Rose Franken.

Claudia (telenovela)

Claudia, is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Canal 4, Telesistema Mexicano in 1960. Starring Angélica María and Ernesto Alonso. with episodes of 30 minutes duration. Starring Maria Elena Marqués and Miguel Córcega.

Claudia (magazine)

Claudia is a Polish language monthly women's magazine published in Warsaw, Poland.

Claudia (1943 film)

Claudia is a 1943 American comedy film directed by Edmund Goulding and written by Morrie Ryskind. The film stars Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Ina Claire, Reginald Gardiner, Olga Baclanova and Jean Howard. The film was released on November 4, 1943, by 20th Century Fox. The film was based on a Broadway play from 1941.

Claudia (given name)

Claudia or Klaudia is a female given name equivalent to Claudius or Claudio. In Portuguese it is accented Cláudia.

The name may refer to:

  • Claudia of Chalon (1498–1521), nobility
  • Claudia Felicitas of Austria (1653–1676), Holy Roman Empress
  • Cláudia Abreu (born 1970), Brazilian actress
  • Claudia Alexander (1959–2015), NASA scientist and project manager
  • Claudia Bandion-Ortner (born 1966), Austrian judge and politician
  • Claudia Bär (born 1980), German canoer
  • Claudia Beamish (born 1952), Scottish politician
  • Claudia Beni (born 1986), Croatian singer
  • Claudia Black (born 1972), Australian actress
  • Claudia Bühlmann, Swiss bobsledder
  • Claudia Cardinale (born 1938), Italian actress
  • Cláudia Cepeda (born 1967), Brazilian actress
  • Claudia Christian (born 1965), American actress
  • Claudia Ciesla (born 1987), German model and actress
  • Claudia Cowan, American journalist
  • Claudia Dreher (born 1971), German runner
  • Claudia Faniello (born 1988), Maltese singer
  • Claudia Fontaine (born 1960), English singer
  • Claudia Fontán (born 1966), Argentine actress
  • Claudia Franco (born 1975), Spanish swimmer
  • Claudia Giovine (born 1990), Italian tennis player
  • Claudia di Girolamo (born 1956), Chilean actress
  • Cláudia Graner (born 1974), Brazilian water polo player
  • Claudia Hammond (born 1971), British author and journalist
  • Claudia Hempel (born 1958), German swimmer
  • Claudia Hürtgen (born 1971), German race driver
  • Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (born 1984), Polish tennis player
  • Claudia Jennings (1949–1979), American model and actress
  • Claudia L. Johnson, American literary scholar
  • Claudia Jordan (born 1973), American model
  • Klaudia Kaczorowska (born 1988), Polish volleyball player
  • Claudia Karvan (born 1972), Australian actress
  • Claudia J. Kennedy (born 1947), United States Army general
  • Claudia Kim (born 1985), South Korean actress
  • Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (born 1963), German tennis player
  • Claudia Koll (born 1965), Italian actress and missionary
  • Klaudia Koronel (born 1975), Filipino actress and businesswoman
  • Klaudia Kovács, Hungarian-American actress and film director
  • Klaudia Kovács (born 1990), Hungarian footballer
  • Claudia Kreuzig Grinnell, German-American poet
  • Claudia Kristofics-Binder (born 1961), Austrian figure skater
  • Claudia Lawrence (born 1974), British missing person
  • Claudia Leistner (born 1965), German figure skater
  • Claudia Leitte (born 1980), Brazilian singer
  • Claudia Lennear, American singer
  • Claudia Lichtenberg (born 1985), German cyclist
  • Claudia Losch (born 1960), German shot putter
  • Claudia Lösch (born 1988), Austrian alpine skier
  • Claudia Melchers (born 1969), Dutch kidnap victim
  • Claudia Mo (born 1957), Hong Kong journalist and politician
  • Cláudia Monteiro (born 1961), Brazilian tennis player
  • Claudia Müller (born 1974), German footballer
  • Claudia Müller-Ebeling (born 1956), German anthropologist and art historian
  • Cláudia das Neves (born 1975), Brazilian basketball playe
  • Claudia Novelo (born 1965), Mexican swimmer
  • Claudia Nystad (born 1978), German skier
  • Claudia Ortiz (born 1981), Peruvian beauty pageant contestant
  • Claudia Palacios (born 1977), Colombian journalist
  • Claudia Pandolfi (born 1974), Italian actress
  • Claudia Pastorino (born 1965), Italian singer, author and activist
  • Claudia Pavel (born 1984), Romanian singer
  • Claudia Pavlovich Arellano (born 1969), Mexican politician and lawyer
  • Claudia Pechstein (born 1972), German speed skater
  • Claudia Poll (born 1972), Costa Rican swimmer
  • Claudia Porwik (born 1968), German tennis player
  • Claudia Presăcan (born 1979), Romanian gymnast
  • Claudia Riegler (born 1973), Austrian snowboarder
  • Claudia Riegler (born 1976), New Zealand alpine skier
  • Claudia Rivas (born 1989), Mexican triathlete
  • Klaudia Rynkowska (born 1986), Polish gymnast
  • Claudia Schiffer (born 1970), German model and actress
  • Klaudia Schifferle (born 1955), Swiss painter and musician
  • Claudia Schiess (born 1989), Ecuadorian beauty pageant contestant
  • Claudia Ștef (born 1978), Romanian race walker
  • Klaudia Szemerey-Pataki (born 1976), Hungarian politician
  • Klaudia Taev (1906–1985), Estonian vocal pedagogue
  • Klaudia Tasz (born 1973), Polish ski mountaineer
  • Claudia Tavel (born 1989), Bolivian beauty pageant contestant
  • Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson (Lady Bird Johnson, 1912–2007), First Lady of the United States
  • Klaudia Ungerman (born 1988), Polish beauty pageant contestant
  • Claudia van den Heiligenberg (born 1985), Dutch footballer
  • Claudia Velásquez (born 1975), Peruvian swimmer
  • Claudia Wells (born 1966), American actress
  • Claudia Winkleman (born 1972), English journalist
  • Ana Cláudia Lemos (born 1988), Brazilian sprinter
  • Ana Cláudia Michels (born 1981), Brazilian model
Fictional characters
  • Claudia Grant, Robotech character
  • Claudia Hammond, Home and Away character
  • Claudia LaSalle, Macross character
  • Claudia Zacchara (born 1969), General Hospital character

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Usage examples of "claudia".

Claudia pictured a pond, a double row of neatly clipped yew hedges bisecting her immaculate new lawn and framing the kind of borders that would be filled with a profusion of traditional perennials like delphiniums, poppies, alliums and lupins.

Claudia had spent the whole of the previous month sewing pretty gingham curtains for it, complete with tie-backs and matching appliqued gingham cushions for the child-sized furniture.

A wild longing, the perversion of homesickness, filled him for the smoky brown champaigns and the mossy woodlands which now enshrined the jewel of Claudia.

Annette loved to hear about his travels and to fantasise a little about him, suspected Claudia, reluctantly replying.

After Garth and his friends had finished carrying the furniture up the four flights of stairs to their attic home, Claudia had cooked them all a huge meal of spaghetti Bolognese cooked on the Baby Belling stove that was part of the fitments of the flat and that Claudia and her mother had spent hours cleaning with hundreds of packs of Brillo pads.

Ellis opened the front door, Quentin walked through it with Stephen, and, through her lashes, Claudia watched Ellis follow them, his long strides taking him further and further away rapidly.

Too caught off guard to argue and still shellshocked from her discovery, Claudia gave in numbly when Garth announced his plans.

It was the nurse--more experienced by far than Garth--who recognised what was going to happen and who discreetly alerted the sister so that when Claudia refused to allow anyone to remove the baby from her arms, the sister was there within seconds and deftly administering the second dose of tranquilliser as she had done the first.

They were as crazy as Valentina and Claudia had been in the early days.

From Claudia she had learned to feel compassion for others and to make allowances for their weaknesses and vulnerabilities, but she knew that no amount of hardship would persuade her to abandon the ideals she so fervently believed in.

Claudia, a lovely bluestocking, was twenty years old already and had never had her opportunity in town because her own mother had died two years previously.

Not only was the demure, well-behaved bluestocking Claudia immediately hailed as the Angel, but Augusta herself had proved just as successful.

Claudia Barnum, a nurse named Nancy Green, and Cleve Salter, an orderly.

He reached the hospital just as they were wheeling an inert and still-anaesthetized Claudia back to the ward.

With Defiant running on autohelm, his mind quickly reverted to thoughts of Claudia.