Baptista
Proper noun
Meaning
Baptista (plural Baptistas)
A surname from the Romance languages, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Synonyms
Examples
Based on Ben Dunn’s comic book character Warrior Nun Areala, starts with a 19-year-old girl named Ava (Baptista) waking up in the morgue.
Mariana Baptista from Brazil recently completed a year in Massachusetts as an au pair.
He, too, is from Padua, and his name is Baptista Minola, which Oxfordians take to be a conflation of Baptista Nigrone and Pasquino Spinola.
Brazilian Julio Baptista scored four as Arsenal secured a second Anfield win in a matter of days to book a semi-final spot in the Carling Cup.
In the wake of Swami Dayanand’s call for “swaraj” (home rule) in India, powerful nationalist figures like Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Joseph Baptista, both from Mumbai, raised the epic call: “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it!”
List of works Further reading *Baptista Bastos, José Saramago: Aproximação a um retrato, Dom Quixote, 1996 *T.