House of the Breeze

[cirel]

I am in the process of naming my new home "House of the Breeze".

I THINK that in Italian it would be "Villa della Brezza", but it doesn't feel or sound quite right. What am I doing wrong?
I'd greatly appreciate assistance. Thank you

 

[Jana337]

I am in the process of naming my new home "House of the Breeze".

I THINK that in Italian it would be "Villa della Brezza", but it doesn't feel or sound quite right. What am I doing wrong?
I'd greatly appreciate assistance. Thank you

Hello and welcome!

Our natives will certainly help you. Let me ask you a favor: To facilitate orientation and future searches, we like our members to choose as meaningful thread titles as possible. House of the Breeze would be perfect in your case.

By the way, I have had to rename two Italian threads with an identical title today. This forum would be a mess if we weren't considerate.

Bye,

Jana

P.S. Personally, I would go for Villa Brezza but natives will definitely come up with better solutions.

 

[Alfry]

Ciao Cirel,

nulla di sbagliato.
nothing wrong.

actually, there's something wrong but it has nothing to do with your question

It's just a matter of rules:
titles, such as "help,please" are not good- what about House of breeze"?

EDIT: see? moderators are fast!!! Scusa Jana ma stavamo scrivendo contemporaneamente

 

[Elisa68]

Villa Aura or Villa Zefiro (just a little more poetic)

 

[disegno]

Cosa ne dici di 'Villa del Vento', penso che questo suoni bene...o più poetico 'Villa del Vento Ponente' ma questo mi fa pensare di un sciocco teleromanzo si puo vedere sulla RAI. (Guardate! Ho imparato una cosa dalla discussione recente della RAI...al meno spero di sì! )

 

[cirel]

Disegno,
I didn't understand a word, but thank you anyway; I think you suggest 'Villa del Vento" which is lovely, or 'Villa del Vento Ponente", which means?

 

[cirel]

"Villa Zefiro" is very nice, Elisa - thank you for your help.

 

[Elisa68]

My pleasure!;-)

 

[disegno]

Disegno,
I didn't understand a word, but thank you anyway; I think you suggest 'Villa del Vento" which is lovely, or 'Villa del Vento Ponente", which means?

mi dispiace! Ponente = western. Vento di ponente = western wind
It rolls off the tongue in a nice way.

Vento di Ponente is also the name of a silly fictional tv show on RAI
It deals with two "feuding" families who own ship building companies in Genova, and of course there is a Romano/Juliette theme with a daughter and son from each family falling in love....

 

[Silvia]

Is it a villa? Or just a house?
Villa Brezza - as suggested by Jana - is better than Villa della Brezza. I don't mind Villa Zefiro.

I hope the house is not in an area of tornadoes!

 

[cirel]

It's a large house, Silvia, on several acres, Spanish in architecture with a beautiful view of the ocean - no tornadoes in So. Calif., thankfully. And it has a gentle, constant breeze, but of more import is that my favorite dog is named "Breeze", hence
"House of the Breeze" !

 

[Silvia]

Literally "Casa della Brezza", it's not bad, on the contrary. Brezza is usually associated to the idea of sea:
brezza marina = sea breeze

Brezza is pronounced bray tsah

 

[cirel]

But I like the idea of a 'villa' better than 'casa' . . . .

 

[Elisa68]

But I like the idea of a 'villa' better than 'casa' . . . .

And I agree with you!!!!

Villa is a more appropriate term for a private house while casa, remind me a private hospital or a retirement house (at least in Italy: casa di cura o casa di riposo).

Villa is definitely more beautiful so go ahead!!!!

 

[*Laura*]

In Sardinia there is a beautiful restaurant called "Casa del Vento", maybe it's less poetic than "Villa Brezza", but anyway I like it a lot

 

[cirel]

You are all being so very helpful - thank you so much!
Why is the 'del' in the middle of "'Casa del Vento" but you don't suggest using it in 'Villa Brezza" ?

 

[Jana337]

You are all being so very helpful - thank you so much!
Why is the 'del' in the middle of "'Casa del Vento" but you don't suggest using it in 'Villa Brezza" ?

This is quite tough! I am not a native but I think it just sounds better this way. Furthermore, casa and vento have different genders, which is certainly a lame explanation, but I would prefer Casa Brezza over Casa della Brezza.

Jana

 

[Silvia]

Why is the 'del' in the middle of "'Casa del Vento" but you don't suggest using it in 'Villa Brezza"?

Ok, tell me why you say Lake Michigan, but Mississippi River, and then I'll think of something.

 

[disegno]

Ok, tell me why you say Lake Michigan, but Mississippi River, and then I'll think of something.

...just 'cause Seriously, I think that rivers suffer from an identity crisis and feel more secure if they have their proper names placed first.

 

[cirel]

Mmmnnn, good question Silvia: those are the names of those bodies of water, not a choice of grammar. I assume 'del' or 'della' means 'of the', so using one or the other is grammatically correct, or not, as the case may be.
Another example: 'College of the Pacific" and 'Pacific College' are two separate and different schools, and those are their names - there is no choice in the use of ' of the'. It seems, however, that I have a choice of using 'del' or 'della' or not, gramatically it seems to be correct; it just doesn't SOUND good !

 

[Silvia]

Cirel, you said it, there might be a hotel named "Hotel Due Laghi" and another one named "Hotel dei Due Laghi". It becomes a proper name. Besides that, sometimes there are no rules, so why should we make them up? Let's just live with that!