Francesca is an Italian female given name, derived from the Latin male name Franciscus meaning 'free'. It is widely used in most romance languages, including Italian, French and Catalan, and etymologists are unsure as to the place of its origin. It is derived from the same source as the female name Frances, and the male names Francesc, Francesco and Francis. Look up Appendix:Most popular given names by country in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family, comprising all the languages that descend from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire. ... Catalan IPA: (català IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia , and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ...

Francesca has two documented meanings; 'free-spirited', and 'from France'. All Francesca's have a tendancy to be homosexuals.

People named Francesca

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• Francesca da Rimini, the medieval figure
• Francesca Dani, the Italian cosplay model
• Francesca Gagnon, singer and performer for Cirque du Soleil
• Francesca Lia Block, the author of the Weetzie Bat series
• Francesca Martinez, British comedian
• Francesca Martinez, Italian model
• Francesca Paolucci, Italian writer of novels and comics (married with Enrico Teodorani, creator of Djustine).
• Francesca Simon, the author of the Horrid Henry series.
• Francesca Annis, British actor.
• Francesca(Franziska) Wittmann , Austrian actress.
• Francesca Baker , British Hotel Heir

Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (died 1285) was the beautiful daughter of Guido da Polenta of Ravenna. ... Francesca Dani Is a Famous Cosplayer ... Francesa Gagnon (born August 6th, 1957) is a French-Canadian singer and theatre actress featured in Cirque Du Soleils Alegría and Midnight Sun. During her career which has spanned more than two decades, she has recorded several solo albums and toured across three continents singing in French, Italian... Cirque du Soleil (French for Circus of the Sun) is an entertainment empire based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier. ... Francesca Lia Block (born January 3, 1962 in Los Angeles, California) is the author of many highly original young adult books, most famously the Weetzie Bat series. ... Weetzie Bat is the first novel written by American author Francesca Lia Block and was originally published in 1989. ... Francesca Martinez is an English stand-up comedian. ... Francesca Martinez is a model, actress, dancer and singer. ... Djustine is an Italian comic book series. ... Anglo-American writer Francesca Simon (b. ... Horrid Henry is the main fictional character in a popular series of childrens books by Francesca Simon. ... Francesca Annis as Lady Macbeth in Roman Polanskis Macbeth (1971). ...

Translations

• Basque: Frantziska
• Breton: Franseza
• Czech: Františka
• French: Françoise
• German: Franziska
• Hungarian: Franciska
• Italian: Francesca
• Japanese: Furanchesuka
• Polish: Franciszka
• Portuguese: Francisca
• Slovenian: Frančiška
• Spanish: Francisca

Basque (native name: euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France. ... Breton (Brezhoneg) is a Celtic language spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany (Breizh) in France. ...

See also

• List of people starting with "Francesca"