Altamira
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish Altamira, from Galician.
Proper noun
[edit]Altamira (plural Altamiras)
- A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician]
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Altamira is the 50275th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 416 individuals. Altamira is most common among Hispanic/Latino (84.62%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (10.82%) individuals.
Galician
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Torres_de_Altamira_-_Brion_-_07.jpg/220px-Torres_de_Altamira_-_Brion_-_07.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Alta (“high”) + mira (“watch”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Altamira f
- a number of villages throughout Galicia
See also
[edit]Altamira on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia gl
References
[edit]- “Altamira” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Altamira”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Altamira m or f by sense
- a surname
Proper noun
[edit]Altamira ?
- A town in Huila, Colombia.
- A town in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
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- English terms derived from Galician
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- Galician compound terms
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- Galician proper nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- gl:Villages in Galicia
- Spanish 4-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/iɾa
- Rhymes:Spanish/iɾa/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish nouns with multiple genders
- Spanish masculine and feminine nouns by sense
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- es:Towns in Colombia
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- es:Towns in the Dominican Republic
- es:Places in the Dominican Republic