Guadalupe
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish Guadalupe; see there for more.
Proper noun[edit]
Guadalupe
- Any of several places in Iberia and the Americas, chiefly an island off Baja California.
Catalan[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Guadalupe f
Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- Guadeloupe (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Spanish Guadalupe.
Proper noun[edit]
Guadalupe f
- Guadeloupe (an island and overseas department of France in the Caribbean)
Related terms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Epithet of Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron of Mexico, from the place name, Guadalupe, where the image is kept, which from Arabic وَادِي ال (wādī l-, “valley of the”) + Latin lupum (“wolf”).
Proper noun[edit]
Guadalupe f
- A female given name
- (rare) A male given name
- Guadeloupe (overseas department of France)
- Guadalupe (island off Baja California)
Usage notes[edit]
- (male given name): Often when used as a family 'heirloom' name that is passed down to the first born whether they are male or female.
Diminutive[edit]
- (female given name): Lupita
Categories:
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan proper nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns with no feminine ending
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Spanish
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- pt:Islands
- pt:Overseas departments
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish female given names
- Spanish male given names
