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In the preface, p. xi, Martin stated of that chapter: "Many of the [place names and] surnames have been found in classes of records which contain documents in both languages referring to the same case, like the Chancery Proceedings, in which bills and answers are in English and writs in Latin."
Pages in category "Latin-language surnames" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The surname Spring is shared by: Amos Spring (1880–1958), English cricketer; Antoine Frédéric Spring (1814–1872), Belgian physician and botanist; Arthur Spring (born 1976), Irish Labour Party politician; Bryan Spring (born 1945), British jazz drummer; Charles A. Spring (1800–1892), American merchant and religious leader
Herrera – 451,226 – From the Latin word ferrāria, meaning either "Iron Mine" or "Iron Works". Medina – 431,518 – From the Arabic word madina, meaning city. Vargas – 427,854 – From Spanish and Portuguese, from various places called Vargas, meaning variously "thatched hut", "steep slope", or "fenced pastureland which becomes ...
Furrina was a goddess of springs. [3] According to Georges Dumézil, her name was related to the moving or bubbling of water. It is cognate with Gothic brunna ("spring"), Latin fervēre, from *fruur > furr by metathesis of the vowel, meaning to bubble or boil. [4] Compare English "fervent", "effervescent", and Latin defruutum ("boiled wine").
Those Russian surnames that end with -ov/-ev or -in/-yn are originally patronymic or metronymic possessive adjectivals with the meaning 'son of' or 'daughter/wife of' (the feminine is formed with the -a ending – Smirnova, Ivanova, etc.).
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First/given/forename, middle, and last/family/surname with John Fitzgerald Kennedy as example. This shows a structure typical for Anglophonic cultures (and some others). Other cultures use other structures for full names. A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.