Vásquez

See also: Vasquez

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese Vaasquez, from an earlier Velasco +‎ -ez.[1] Velasco and Belasco are Romance forms of a name in Paleo-Hispanic (probably Iberian [Term?] or Basque [Term?]). Doublet of Velázquez, Blázquez, and Valesco.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Vásquez m or f by sense

  1. a patronymical surname from Old Galician-Portuguese

Descendants

  • Cebuano: Vasquez
  • English: Vasquez
  • Tagalog: Vasquez
  • Translingual: vasquezii

References

  1. ^ Lidia Becker (2009), Hispano-romanisches Namenbuch[1], Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, retrieved 31 July 2018, page 260

Further reading

  • Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “Vaasque”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega