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modena
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Modena \Mod"e*na\, n. [From Modena, in Italy.]
A certain crimsonlike color.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Italian city, the name probably is from a pre-Latin language, but folk etymology connects it with Mutina, epithet of the nymph Lara who was stricken dumb by Zeus in punishment for her loquacity, from Latin mutus. Related: Modenese.
Wiktionary
n. A crimson colour.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 211
Land area (2000): 0.330195 sq. miles (0.855200 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.001208 sq. miles (0.003130 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.331403 sq. miles (0.858330 sq. km)
FIPS code: 50232
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 39.962256 N, 75.802158 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Wikipedia
Modena (; Etruscan: Mutna; ; Modenese: Mòdna) is a city and comune ( municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
An ancient town, and seat of an archbishop, it is known for its automotive industry since the factories of the famous Italian sports car makers Ferrari, De Tomaso, Lamborghini, Pagani and Maserati are, or were, located here and all, except Lamborghini, have headquarters in the city or nearby. One of Ferrari's cars, the 360 Modena, was named after the town itself.
The University of Modena, founded in 1175 and expanded by Francesco II d'Este in 1686, has traditional strengths in economics, medicine and law and is the second oldest athenaeum in Italy. Italian military officers are trained at the Military Academy of Modena, and partly housed in the Baroque Ducal Palace. The Biblioteca Estense houses historical volumes and 3,000 manuscripts. The Cathedral of Modena, the Torre della Ghirlandina and Piazza Grande are a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
Modena is also known in culinary circles for its production of balsamic vinegar.
Famous Modenesi include Mary of Modena, the Queen consort of England and Scotland; operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti and soprano Mirella Freni, born in Modena itself; Enzo Ferrari, eponymous founder of the Ferrari motor company; Catholic priest Gabriele Amorth; chef Massimo Bottura; comics artist Franco Bonvicini and singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini, who lived here for several decades.
Modena Team SpA was a Formula One team from Italy that contested a single season in 1991. The team had a rather confused history, and is often referred to as the "Lambo" or Lamborghini team because of its connections to the Italian automotive manufacturer. It competed in 16 World Championship Grands Prix (6 starts) but scored no Championship points. Its best result was seventh in the 1991 United States Grand Prix.
Modena can mean several things, including:
Geography- Duchy of Modena and Reggio
- El Modena, California
- Modena, Italy
- Modena, Missouri
- Modena, Pennsylvania
- Modena, Utah
- Modena, Wisconsin, a town
- Modena (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Province of Modena, Italy
- Ferrari 360 Modena, a model of the Ferrari 360
- Modenas, a Malaysian motorcycle company
- Modena F.C., a football club in Modena, Italy
- Modena (racing team), a Formula One team from Modena, Italy
- Duomo di Modena, a cathedral in Modena, Italy
- Palais Modena, a palace in Vienna, Austria
- Mary of Modena, the queen consort of King James II of England and VII of Scotland
- Leon of Modena (1571–1648), a Jewish scholar
- Stefano Modena, a former Formula One driver from Italy
- Wiligelmus, Gulielmo da Modena, or Guglielmo da Modena (1099?–1120), an Italian sculptor
- William of Modena, Bishop of Modena in 1221
- List of Dukes of Ferrara and of Modena
- Modena (pigeon), a breed of domestic pigeon
- Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Gr. I, a late tenth century illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book
- Modena City Ramblers, an Italian folk-rock band
- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
- 37 Mountain Infantry Division Modena for the Italian division of World War II
Usage examples of "modena".
Barbaro told me the chief incidents in a life that had been adventurous enough, and informed me that he was now in the service of the Duke of Modena, the Governor of Milan.
I could therefore penetrate into the state of Mantua by stating that I was coming from Modena, my success would be certain, because I could then cross the Po and go straight to Venice.
On the 26th of December the Abbe Marquisio, the envoy of the Duke of Modena, asked the viceroy, before a considerable number of people, if he could pay me a visit, to give me a letter which he could place in no hands but mine.
It was the converted Jew who had purchased for His Majesty the gallery of the Duke of Modena for one hundred thousand sequins.
Duke of Modena, had long chosen him as his representative with other powers.
Milanese jurisconsult, turned ecclesiastic, enlarged him by one of the first acts of his Papacy, and restored him to the charge of the diocese of Modena.
He accordingly took possession of Comachio and some other places, pretending they were allodial estates belonging to the duke of Modena, and fiefs of the emperor, to which the holy see had no lawful claim.
On the exhausting ride home from Modena on the autostrada we stopped at a service area, where I bought Cesare a bag of American tortilla chips.
Modena a too-zealous detective of the French police, struck with the Alsatian accent of the orderly, immediately decided that they were two Prussian spies, and refused to allow them to proceed, since they could show him no passports.
Knowing the hour at which the barge arrived from Modena, we all went to meet them, except M.
Gondoin, a colonel in the service of the Duke of Modena, because he held a faro bank at his house.
I saw the marquis some time afterwards at Marseilles, and a few years later he purchased two estates at Modena.
Barbaro told me the chief incidents in a life that had been adventurous enough, and informed me that he was now in the service of the Duke of Modena, the Governor of Milan.
I got to Modena the evening after I left Bologna, and I stopped there, with one of those sudden whims to which I have always been subject.
He immediately made up his mind to go to Modena in order to explain to his pupil how he was to act in Venice to open for himself the way to a brilliant fortune.