Cervantes
Meaning
- (masculine) A municipality of Lugo, Galicia, Spain
- (masculine) a toponymical surname
Hyphenated as
Cer‧van‧tes
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/θeɾˈbantes/
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).
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