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Moreno is Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
, Portuguese
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
 and Filipino
Tagalog language

Tagalog is one of the major languages used in the Philippines. It is a basis for the Filipino language, which is the principal language of the national television and radio, though broadsheet newspapers are almost completely in English....
 for a tanned
Sun tanning

Sun tanning describes a darkening of the Human skin color in a natural physiological response stimulated by exposure to ultraviolet radiation from sunlight or from artificial sources such as a tanning bed....
 or dark or brown-skinned
Human skin color

Human skin color can range from almost black to nearly colorless in different homo sapiens. Skin color is determined by the amount and type of melanin, the pigment in the skin....
 person. In origin the term was used to refer to a person with brown
Brown hair

Brown hair is the second most common hair color, with black being the most common.Brown hair varies from light brown to almost black hair. It is characterized by higher levels of the dark pigment eumelanin and lower levels of the pale pigment phaeomelanin....
 or black
Black hair

Black hair is the darkest and most common color of human hair. Black hair is found in people of all backgrounds and ethnicities. It has large amounts of eumelanin and is less dense than other hair colors....
 Hair color
Hair color

Hair color is the pigmentation of hair follicles due to the two types of melanin, eumelanin and phaeomelanin. Generally, if more melanin is present in the hair, the color of the hair is darker; if less melanin is present, the hair color is lighter....
, regardless of skin
Human skin color

Human skin color can range from almost black to nearly colorless in different homo sapiens. Skin color is determined by the amount and type of melanin, the pigment in the skin....
 or Eye color
Eye color

Eye color is a polygenic trait and is determined by the amount and type of pigments in the eye's Iris . Humans and animals have many phenotypic variations in eye color....
 (synonym for Brunette
Brown hair

Brown hair is the second most common hair color, with black being the most common.Brown hair varies from light brown to almost black hair. It is characterized by higher levels of the dark pigment eumelanin and lower levels of the pale pigment phaeomelanin....
), nowadays both meanings co-exist. It is also a Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian surname and an Italian given name.

The meaning of "moreno" in Spanish depends on what country you are in. For example, in Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 if someone is moreno, that means that they have dark brown (but not black) skin, the color most indigenous and mestizos have.






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Moreno is Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
, Portuguese
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
 and Filipino
Tagalog language

Tagalog is one of the major languages used in the Philippines. It is a basis for the Filipino language, which is the principal language of the national television and radio, though broadsheet newspapers are almost completely in English....
 for a tanned
Sun tanning

Sun tanning describes a darkening of the Human skin color in a natural physiological response stimulated by exposure to ultraviolet radiation from sunlight or from artificial sources such as a tanning bed....
 or dark or brown-skinned
Human skin color

Human skin color can range from almost black to nearly colorless in different homo sapiens. Skin color is determined by the amount and type of melanin, the pigment in the skin....
 person. In origin the term was used to refer to a person with brown
Brown hair

Brown hair is the second most common hair color, with black being the most common.Brown hair varies from light brown to almost black hair. It is characterized by higher levels of the dark pigment eumelanin and lower levels of the pale pigment phaeomelanin....
 or black
Black hair

Black hair is the darkest and most common color of human hair. Black hair is found in people of all backgrounds and ethnicities. It has large amounts of eumelanin and is less dense than other hair colors....
 Hair color
Hair color

Hair color is the pigmentation of hair follicles due to the two types of melanin, eumelanin and phaeomelanin. Generally, if more melanin is present in the hair, the color of the hair is darker; if less melanin is present, the hair color is lighter....
, regardless of skin
Human skin color

Human skin color can range from almost black to nearly colorless in different homo sapiens. Skin color is determined by the amount and type of melanin, the pigment in the skin....
 or Eye color
Eye color

Eye color is a polygenic trait and is determined by the amount and type of pigments in the eye's Iris . Humans and animals have many phenotypic variations in eye color....
 (synonym for Brunette
Brown hair

Brown hair is the second most common hair color, with black being the most common.Brown hair varies from light brown to almost black hair. It is characterized by higher levels of the dark pigment eumelanin and lower levels of the pale pigment phaeomelanin....
), nowadays both meanings co-exist. It is also a Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian surname and an Italian given name.

The meaning of "moreno" in Spanish depends on what country you are in. For example, in Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 if someone is moreno, that means that they have dark brown (but not black) skin, the color most indigenous and mestizos have. In Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, on the other hand, a moreno is nothing more than someone with dark brown or black hair; In Portugal, as in Spain, "moreno" can be translated as "brunette". This was the original meaning of the word and the vast majority of Portuguese and Spaniards consider themselves to be "moreno". Usually, in Portugal and Spain, "moreno" aplies only to people of European descent. It is however true that in Portugal and Spain non-Europeans can be qualified as "morenos", but when it is so obvious, the term "moreno" is not usually applied. Moreno is stricty the oposition to blonde, and as such when speaking of "morenos" in Portugal and Spain, non whites do not come to mind.

In Brazil "moreno" is a very popular term and not considered offensive; it focuses more on skin color than on ethnicity (it is close to other human characteristics like tall and short).

For others references to Moreno, see below:

People (with Moreno surname)


Arts

  • Alma Moreno
    Alma Moreno

    Vanessa Lacsamana is a Filipino actress who has made her mark both as a popular movie and television personality. She was born in Cervantes, Ilocos Sur to Frank Lacsamana, who hails from Pampanga, and Jean Moreno, a couple who lived a simple yet noble life....
    , Filipina actress
  • Antonio "Tony" Moreno
    Antonio Moreno

    Antonio "Tony" Moreno was a notable actor and film director of the silent film era and through the 1950s....
    , Spanish actor and film director.
  • Belita Moreno
    Belita Moreno

    Aurabela "Belita" Moreno , is an American actress.She was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Aurora Fernandez Rodriguez, a schoolteacher, and Abel Moreno....
    , American actress
  • Catalina Sandino Moreno
    Catalina Sandino Moreno

    Catalina Sandino Moreno is an Academy Award nominated Colombian Actor....
    , Colombian actress.
  • Chino Moreno
    Chino Moreno

    Chino Moreno is an American musician. He is the lead singer and guitarist in Deftones and Team Sleep....
    , United States musician.
  • Federico Moreno Torroba
    Federico Moreno Torroba

    Federico Moreno Torroba was a Spain composer, born in Madrid....
    , Spanish composer.
  • Isko Moreno
    Isko Moreno

    Francisco Domagoso is the current deputy mayor of Manila, Philippines and a former three-term councilor of the city's Legislative districts of Manila#1st District....
    , Filipino TV actor.
  • Leticia Moreno
    Leticia Moreno

    Leticia Mu?oz Moreno is a Spain violinist. She started her music education at the early age of 3 in both violin and piano with the Suzuki Method offering her first recitals when she was just 5....
    , Spanish violinist.
  • Moreno, French Gypsy jazz
    Gypsy jazz

    Gypsy jazz is an idiom often said to have been started by guitarist Django Reinhardt in the 1930s. Because its origins are largely in France it is often called by the French name, "Jazz manouche," or alternatively, "manouche jazz," even in English language sources....
     musician
  • Rita Moreno
    Rita Moreno

    Rita Moreno is a singer, dancer and actress of Puerto Rican people descent. She is the first and only Hispanic female and one of nine performers who have won an List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards and at the time the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award....
    , Puerto Rican actress.
  • Mario Moreno "Cantinflas", Mexican comedian/actor.
  • Jorge Moreno
    Jorge Moreno

    Cuban-American Jorge Moreno delivers some of the most interesting and alternative work to the Latin music scene in the 2000s; a fusion of pop/rock, Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, and urban rhythms are brought together in his debut album, Moreno....
     () aka "Moreno", Grammy winning Cuban American Singer


Politics

  • Alberto Moreno
    Alberto Moreno

    Alberto Moreno Rojas del R?o is a left-wing Peruvian politician. He is the general secretary of the Communist Party of Peru and the president of the New Left Movement ....
    , Peruvian politician.
  • Celso Cesare Moreno, (1830-1901) Italian adventurer.
  • Denise Moreno Ducheny
    Denise Moreno Ducheny

    Denise Moreno Ducheny is a California State Senate who represents Senate District 40, which includes southern San Diego County, part of Riverside County, and all of Imperial County....
    , United States politician.
  • Gabriel García Moreno
    Gabriel García Moreno

    Gabriel Gregorio Fernando Jos? Mar?a Garc?a y Moreno y Mor?n de Buitr?n was an Ecuadorian statesman who twice served as President of Ecuador of his country and was assassinated during his second term....
    , former President of Ecuador.
  • Helena Moreno, news anchor who ran as a Democrat against William J. Jefferson
    William J. Jefferson

    William Jennings "Bill" Jefferson is an Politics of the United States from the U.S. state of Louisiana. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for nine terms from 1991 to 2009....
     for Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District in 2008.
  • Javier Moreno
    Javier Moreno

    Javier Moreno S?nchez is a Spain politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists....
    , Spanish politician.
  • Julio Enrique Moreno
    Julio Enrique Moreno

    Julio Enrique Moreno was List of heads of state of Ecuador of Ecuador in 1926 and again in 1940.External links ...
    , former President of Ecuador.
  • Luis Alberto Moreno
    Luis Alberto Moreno

    Luis Alberto Moreno is a Colombian diplomat and journalist. He was elected president of the Inter-American Development Bank in July 2005.Alumni from the Gimnasio Campestre school in Bogota, Moreno was appointed to be Colombia?s Ambassador to the United States in September 1998 by President Andr?s Pastrana and ratified by President ?lvaro...
    , Colombian diplomat and journalist.
  • Luis Moreno Ocampo, Argentinian Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
  • María de los Angeles Moreno
    María de los Angeles Moreno

    Mar?a de los Angeles Moreno Uriegas is a Mexico politician who was the first woman in Mexico to be elected president of a political party....
    , Mexican politician.
  • Mariano Moreno
    Mariano Moreno

    Mariano Moreno was an Argentina lawyer, journalist and politician. He played a decisive role in the May Revolution, which led to the Argentine Declaration of Independence of Argentina from Spain....
    , Argentinian lawyer, journalist and politician.
  • Nahuel Moreno
    Nahuel Moreno

    Nahuel Moreno was a Trotskyism leader from Argentina. Moreno was active in the Trotskyist movement from before World War II until his death....
     (Hugo Bressano), Argentinian politician.


Science

  • Francisco Moreno
    Francisco Moreno

    File:FranciscoMoreno.jpgFrancisco Pascacio Moreno was anArgentina explorer, born in Buenos Aires. He is usually referred to as Perito Moreno ....
     (Perito Moreno), Argentinian explorer.
  • Jacob L. Moreno
    Jacob L. Moreno

    Dr. Jacob Levy Moreno was the founder of psychodrama, sociometry and the foremost pioneer of group psychotherapy. He was also a leading psychiatrist, theorist and educator....
    , Austro-Romanian psychotherapist.
  • José Luis Ortiz Moreno
    José Luis Ortiz Moreno

    Jos? Luis Ortiz Moreno is an astronomer, and former Vicedirector of Technology at the Instituto de Astrof?sica de Andaluc?a , Spain. He leads a team working on minor planet at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Granada, Spain....
    , Spanish astronomer.
  • Óscar Moreno
    Óscar Moreno

    ?scar Moreno , was a Portuguese people urologist, physician, Scientist and Chemist....
    , Portuguese doctor.


Sports

  • Arturo Moreno
    Arturo Moreno

    Arturo "Arte" Moreno is an United States billionaire of Mexican descent. On May 15, 2003, he made history by becoming the first Hispanic to own a major sports team in the United States when he purchased the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball team from the Walt Disney Company....
    , owner of Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
    's Anaheim Angels
  • John Rey Moreno, Filipino tennis player
  • Alejandro Moreno
    Alejandro Moreno

    Alejandro Moreno is a Venezuelan soccer player, who currently plays striker for Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer.Moreno played four years of college soccer at University of North Carolina at Greensboro....
    , Venezuelan football player
  • Alfredo Moreno
    Alfredo Moreno

    Alfredo David Moreno is an Argentine-Mexican football forward, who currently plays for Club Necaxa of the Primera Divisi?n de M?xico.Moreno began his career with Boca Juniors, making his debut for the team September 26, 1999....
    , Argentinian football player
  • Byron Moreno
    Byron Moreno

    Byron Aldemar Moreno Ruales is a former Ecuador football referee , best known for officiating the Italy national football team vs South Korea national football team match in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, a match which South Korea won in extra time....
    , Ecuadorian football referee
  • Carlos Moreno
    Carlos Moreno (athlete)

    Carlos Bernardo Moreno Lira is a retired track and field sprinter from Chile, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea....
    , Chilean track and field sprinter
  • Carla Moreno
    Carla Moreno

    Carla Moreno is an athlete from Brazil, who competes in triathlon. She won the silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada....
    , Brazilian triathlon athlete
  • Frank Moreno
    Frank Moreno

    Frank Esteban Moreno Garc?a is a retired Cuban judoka, who represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics. He won several medals during his career at the Pan American Games in the Men's Heavyweight division....
    , Cuban judoka
  • Jaime Moreno
    Jaime Moreno

    Jaime Moreno Morales is a Bolivian football striker , the first Bolivian to play in the FA Premier League. He has spent most of his career with Major League Soccer club D.C....
    , Bolivian football player
  • Marcelo Moreno, Bolivian football player
  • José Manuel Moreno
    José Manuel Moreno

    Jos? Manuel Moreno Fern?ndez , nicknamed "El Charro", was an Argentina football striker who played for several football club in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia, and is the only footballer ever to have won first division league titles in four different countries....
     (Charro Moreno), Argentinian football player
  • Juan Gutiérrez Moreno
    Juan Gutiérrez Moreno

    Juan Guti?rrez Moreno, aka Juanito , is a Spain footballer who currently plays as a central defender for Real Betis and Spain national football team....
    , Spanish football player
  • Moreno
    João Miguel da Cunha Teixeira

    Jo?o Miguel da Cunha Teixeira , aka Moreno, is a Portugal football , currently playing as a defensive midfielder in the Portuguese Liga, with Vit?ria Sport Clube....
    , Portuguese football player
  • Juan Moreno
    Juan Moreno

    Juan Carlos Moreno, born in Vargas State, Venezuela, is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Texas Rangers and San Diego Padres ....
    , Venezuelan baseball player
  • Michael Moreno, 6th dan Aikido, Shihan
  • Moreno Argentin
    Moreno Argentin

    Moreno Argentin is an Italy former professional cyclist .Born at San Don? di Piave , he won stages in the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de Suisse....
    , Italian cyclist
  • Nuria Moreno
    Nuria Moreno

    Nuria Moreno de Pedr?n is a former female field hockey player from Spain, who was a member of the Spain women's national field hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics....
    , Spanish field hockey player
  • Omar Moreno
    Omar Moreno

    Omar Renan Moreno Quintero was a Major League Baseball outfielder from 1975 to 1986. He was best known for his years with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and was the starting center fielder and leadoff hitter on their 1979 World Series-winning team....
    , Major League Baseball outfielder born in Panama
  • Orber Moreno
    Orber Moreno

    Orber Moreno Aquiles [mo-RAY-noh] is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who is currently a free agent. Moreno last played in the majors for the New York Mets ....
    , Venezuelan baseball player
  • Rafael Moreno Aranzadi
    Pichichi (footballer)

    Rafael Moreno Aranzadi , known by the nickname Pichichi, was a Spain football who played for Athletic Bilbao and Spain national football team during the 1910s and 1920s....
     (Pichichi), Spanish football player
  • Roberto Moreno
    Roberto Moreno

    Roberto Pupo Moreno , usually known as Roberto Moreno and also as Pupo Moreno, is a racing driver from Brazil. He participated in 75 Formula One Grands Prix, achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 15 championship points....
    , Brazilian Formula One driver
  • Yipsi Moreno
    Yipsi Moreno

    Yipsi Moreno Gonz?lez is a Cuban hammer thrower. She is a double World Champions in athletics and List of Olympic medalists in athletics #Hammer throw, a former world junior record holder and current area record holder....
    , Cuban hammer throw athlete
  • Zeke Moreno
    Zeke Moreno

    Ezekiel Aaron Moreno is a Canadian Football League linebacker for the Toronto Argonauts....
    , United States American Football player
  • Knowshon Moreno
    Knowshon Moreno

    Knowshon Moreno is a former starting running back for the Georgia Bulldogs football. On January 7, 2009, Moreno announced he would forgo his remaining two years of college eligibility and declare for the NFL Draft in April....
    , University of Georgia American Football running back


Other

  • Alcides Moreno
    Alcides Moreno

    Alcides Moreno is a window washer who survived a fall of forty-seven Storey.On the morning of December 72007, the window washer's platform he and his brother Edgar were working on fell without warning from the 47th floor of an apartment building on 66th Street in New York City....
    ,notable as survivor of a 47-story fall
  • Arturo Moreno
    Arturo Moreno

    Arturo "Arte" Moreno is an United States billionaire of Mexican descent. On May 15, 2003, he made history by becoming the first Hispanic to own a major sports team in the United States when he purchased the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball team from the Walt Disney Company....
     (born 1946), American billionaire, first Hispanic to own a major sports franchise in the United States
  • Consuelo Moreno-López (1893–2004), Spanish Moroccan-American supercentenarian (111 at time of death)


Places

  • Moreno, city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco
    Pernambuco

    Pernambuco is a States of Brazil of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil of the country. To the north are the states of Para?ba and Cear?, to the west is Piau?, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean....
    .
  • Perito Moreno Glacier
    Perito Moreno Glacier

    The Perito Moreno Glacier is a glacier located in the Los Glaciares National Park in the south west of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Argentina....
    , glacier in Patagonia, Argentina.
  • Perito Moreno National Park, on the northwest of the Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
    .
  • Perito Moreno, Santa Cruz, town in Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
    , near the Cueva de las Manos
    Cueva de las Manos

    Cueva de las Manos is a cave located in the provinces of Argentina of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Argentina, 163 km south from the town of Perito Moreno, Santa Cruz, within the borders of the Francisco P....
    .
  • Moreno Partido
    Moreno Partido

    Moreno Partido is a departments of Argentina of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, within the Gran Buenos Aires urban agglomerate. It has an area of 186 square kilometres, and a population of 380,503 ....
    , division of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
  • Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
    Puerto Baquerizo Moreno

    Puerto Baquerizo Moreno is the Capital of the Gal?pagos Province, in Ecuador. It is located along the southwestern coast of San Crist?bal , the easternmost island in the archipelago....
    , capital of the Galápagos Province, Ecuador.
  • Lagos de Moreno
    Lagos de Moreno

    Lagos de Moreno is a city and its surrounding Municipalities of Mexico of the same name located in the extreme northeastern part of the state of Jalisco in Mexico....
    , municipality of the state of Jalisco, Mexico.
  • Moreno Valley, California
    Moreno Valley, California

    Moreno Valley is a city located in Riverside County, California. As of January 1, 2008, the population of Moreno Valley was 180,466. A relatively young city, its rapid growth in the 1980s and the 2000s propelled it to its status as second-largest city in Riverside County by population, and one of the Inland Empire 's population centers....
    , city in the United States.
  • Moreno Valley Freeway, freeway in the United States.
  • Moreno Valley Mall
    Moreno Valley Mall

    The Moreno Valley Mall at Towngate is a shopping mall located on the former site of the Riverside International Raceway in Moreno Valley, California....
    , shopping mall in the United States.
  • Moreno Village Rennell Island
    Moreno Village Rennell Island

    Moreno is a village in the Solomon Islands, on Rennell Island in the Rennell and Bellona province....
     Solomon Islands
    Solomon Islands

    For the group of islands rather than the nation, see Solomon Islands .The Solomon Islands is a country in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands....
    ,


Other

  • Azúcar Moreno
    Azúcar Moreno

    Az?car Moreno is the name of a famous Spain music duo who have sold more than 2 million albums since 1985 domestically, and became famous in Europe and Latin America in the 1990s....
    , Spanish music duo.
  • Movimiento Dejen Jugar al Moreno, political party in Colombia.
  • Moreno, a spider genus in the Prodidomidae
    Prodidomidae

    The Prodidomidae are a spider family with about 300 species in 31 genera. They are sometimes called Long-Spinneret Ground Spiders.This family is part of the superfamily Gnaphosoidea....
     family.
  • Morena or Moréna, another name for the Slavic goddess Marzanna
    Marzanna

    Marzanna, Mara, Murava, Morana, Mor?na or Morena is a Slavic pantheon. Her exact function is unclear. She is most often believed to be a Goddess of harvest and witchcraft....
    .


See also

  • Morena (disambiguation)
    Morena (disambiguation)

    Morena can refer to:*Morena , a singer from Malta*feminine form of Moreno*Marzanna, a Slavic goddess of harvest and witchcraft.*Morena, a town in central India...
     for the feminine form
  • Perito Moreno
    Perito Moreno

    Perito Moreno may refer to:*Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer and scientist*Perito Moreno Glacier, at the Los Glaciares National Park in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina...
     (disambiguation page)