Somoza
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish, of Galician origin.
Proper noun
[edit]Somoza (plural Somozas)
- A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician].
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Somoza is the 21218th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1237 individuals. Somoza is most common among Hispanic/Latino (87.15%) individuals.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Attested as Submoncia in 569 and as Somoça in Medieval Galician; from Latin sub- (“under; before”) and *montia, an accusative plural (compare Zanfoga) of a neuter form of mōns (“mountain”), so meaning "beneath the mountains".
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Somoza
- A village in Asados parish, Rianxo, A Coruña, Galicia
- A village in A Rúa de Valdeorras parish, A Rúa, Ourense, Galicia
- A village in Asadur parish, Maceda, Ourense, Galicia
- A parish of Pobra de Trives, Ourense, Galicia
- A village in Botos parish, Lalín, Pontevedra, Galicia
- a toponymical surname
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “somoça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- "Somoza" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /soˈmoθa/ [soˈmo.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /soˈmosa/ [soˈmo.sa]
- Rhymes: -oθa
- Rhymes: -osa
- Syllabification: So‧mo‧za
Proper noun
[edit]Somoza m or f by sense
- a surname from Galician
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- Rhymes:Spanish/oθa
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