X-Nico

unusual facts about Spanish name



Y

In Spanish family names, y can separate the father's surname from the mother's surname as in Santiago Ramón y Cajal; another example is Maturin y Domanova, from the Aubrey-Maturin series.


see also

Ali e radici

Ali e radici (Wings and Roots), also known by its Spanish name Alas y raíces, is a 2009 studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Eros Ramazzotti.

Amazonas

Amazonas is derived from Rio Amazonas, the local Portuguese and Spanish name for the Amazon River.

Aquiles Nazoa

#Aquiles is the Spanish name of the Greek hero Achilles.

Ataúlfo

Ataúlfo is one form of the Spanish name equivalent to Adolf (the other being Adolfo).

Cartago, California

Located near the now abandoned settlement of Carthage, Cartago took its name from the Spanish name for ancient Carthage.

Cathartesaura

It also implies the juxtaposition of the components of the scientific name of the Turkey Vulture, Cathartes aura, whose Spanish name, "buitre", named the locality where the fossil was found due to the abundance of such birds there.

Chiquito

Chiquitos is a Spanish name given to the ethnic peoples of part of Bolivia

Cupronickel

Notably, Andreas Libavius, in his Alchemia of 1597 mentions a surface-whitened copper aes album by mercury or silver; but in De Natura Metallorum in Singalarum Part 1, of 1599, the same term was applied to "tin" from the East Indies (modern-day Indonesia and the Philippines) and given the Spanish name: tintinaso.

Falkland Sound

The Spanish name "Estrecho de San Carlos" refers to the ship San Carlos which visited in 1768; confusingly the English name "San Carlos Water" is a much smaller inlet on East Falkland - and gives its name to San Carlos, Port San Carlos and the San Carlos River.

Heimito von Doderer

His unusual first name was based on an attempt by his mother to germanicize the Spanish name Jaimito, a diminutive of Jaime (James).

Leono

In 2004 he changed his ring name to Leono, the Spanish name for Lion-O of the ThunderCats, which was also reflected in the fact that Leono often had the ThunderCats logo on his trunks.

Lorcha

the Spanish name of Lorcha/L'Orxa, a municipality in the province of Alicante, Spain;

San Juan Nepomuceno

San Juan Nepomuceno is the Spanish name for Saint John of Nepomuk

SEPR

Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico, Protestant seminary in Puerto Rico (abbreviation of Spanish name)

Trompeta china

:Trompeta china is also the Spanish name for the Chinese trumpetfish (also known as Painted flute mouth)

U.S. Route 61

The original Spanish name el camino real was conferred by Colonel George Morgan in honor of Charles IV of Spain, the reigning King of Spain (1788-1808).