Cervantes
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish Cervantes; see there for more.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cervantes
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), an influential Spanish author.
Anagrams
Galician
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Etymology
From the mountain river of the same name, from a substrate language, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to cut off”) (compare Latin curvus).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cervantes m
- A municipality of Lugo, Galicia, Spain.
- a toponymical surname
References
- “Cervantes” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- “Cervantes” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
- ^ Cf. Moralejo, Juan José (2010) "Topónimos célticos en Galicia", in Palaeohispanica (10), page 107.
Spanish
Etymology
Either from ciervo (“stag”) or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Spanish servanto, an evolution of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin serviens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θeɾˈbantes/ [θeɾˈβ̞ãn̪.t̪es]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /seɾˈbantes/ [seɾˈβ̞ãn̪.t̪es]
Proper noun
Cervantes ?
- a surname
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), an influential Spanish author.
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