Maldonado

Meaning

a Spanish surname

Concepts

Maldonado Department

Maldonado

Hyphenated as

Mal‧do‧na‧do

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/maldoˈnado/

Etymology

Possibly from McDonald when Irish Catholics fled religious persecution to settle in Galicia. Or possibly a Calque of French mal donné (literally “reluctantly given”), referring to a boon reluctantly granted by a French monarch.

Sentences

Pertenece al departamento de Maldonado , Uruguay , una importante zona turística del país .

It belongs to the department of Maldonado, Uruguay, an important tourist area of the country.