Nuño

Nuño (Spanish) or Nunyo (Catalan) is a masculine given name of Latin origin (Nunnus, Nonnus, Nunus, Nunno, etc.). Its Portuguese form is Nuno. Its patronymic is Núñez (Latin Nunni). Already in the Middle Ages the name was being confused with the similar but distinct name Munio.[1]

The meaning of the name is disputed. It could come from late Latin nonnus, meaning "tutor", later "monk". The classicist Iiro Kajanto proposed a Celtic origin, since the name is mainly found in formerly Celtic-speaking parts of Spain.[2]

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Nuño
  • All pages with titles containing Nuño
  • Nuño Gómez, a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Spain
  • Nuño Álvarez (disambiguation)
  • Nuño González de Lara (disambiguation)
  • Nuno
  • Neno (name)
  • Niño (name)
  • Nino (name)

Notes

  1. Jaime de Salazar Acha (1985), "Una familia de la Alta Edad Media: Los Vela y su realedad histórica", Estudios Genealógicos y Heráldicos (Madrid: Asociación Española de Estudios Genealogicos y Heraldicos), vol. 1, p. 24n.
  2. Lidia Becker (2009), Hispano-romanisches Namenbuch: Untersuchung der Personennamen vorrömischer, griechischer und lateinisch-romanischer Etymologie auf der Iberischen Halbinsel im Mittelalter (6.–12. Jahrhundert) (De Gruyter), pp. 773ff.
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