Cambre
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See also: cambre
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Cambre (plural Cambres)
- A surname from Anglo-Norman.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Cambre is the 25115th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 988 individuals. Cambre is most common among White (87.85%) individuals.
Anagrams
[edit]Galician
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Igrexa_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_en_Cambre._Galiza.jpg/220px-Igrexa_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_en_Cambre._Galiza.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Attested as Calambre since the 10th century, in local Medieval Latin documents, and later as Caambre in Medieval Galician. From a substrate Celtic language, from a compound of *kala- (“stone?”)[1] + the zero grade of *mrogis (“mark, territory”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Cambre
- A municipality of A Coruña, Galicia
- Santa María de Cambre (a parish of Cambre, A Coruña, Galicia)
- Santa Martiño de Cambre (a parish of Carballo, A Coruña, Galicia)
- A village in Cambre, Carballo, A Coruña, Galicia
- a habitational surname
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Calambre”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “Cambre” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
- “Cambre” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Anglo-Norman
- Galician terms derived from substrate languages
- Galician terms derived from Celtic languages
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician proper nouns
- gl:Municipalities of Spain
- gl:Places in Galicia
- gl:Places in Spain
- gl:Villages in Galicia
- gl:Villages in Spain
- Galician surnames