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The noble surname Rocha is of Spanish descent, and is of locative origin, deriving from a topographic characteristic near the place where the original bearer lived or owned land. The name Rocha is derived from the Catalan word "roca" meaning "rock" or "tower of strength."
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Rocha (Portuguese pronunciation:) is a Portuguese language surname. It literally means “ rock ” or “ boulder ” in Portuguese; for instance, “rochas sedimentares, metamórficas e magmáticas” means “sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks”.
Rocha Barros distinguishes three type of meaning, which emerge in the analytic context, and which are to be explored by way of reverie: hidden meaning, absent meaning, and potential meaning.
Henrique da Rocha Lima (24 November 1879 – 12 April 1956) was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist born in Rio de Janeiro. With his friend, Stanislaus von Prowazek, he described what would later be known as Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus.
