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Some Portuguese names originated from foreigners who came to live in Portugal or Brazil many centuries ago. They are so ancient that, despite their known foreign origin, they are an integrated part of Portuguese and Brazilian cultures. Most of these names are Spanish, such as Toledo (a city in Spain), Ávila or Dávila (a city in Spain) and ...
The conjunction "and" in Spanish is y (pronounced [i] before a consonant, [j] before a vowel) before all words except those beginning with an [i] sound (spelled i- or hi-). Before a syllabic [i] sound (and not the diphthong [je] as in hierro), the Spanish conjunction is e [e̞]. Portuguese uses e [i] before all words. Sal y pimienta. (Spanish ...
The Basque-speaking territories (the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre) follow Spanish naming customs (given names + two family names, the two family names being usually the father's and the mother's). The given names are officially in one language or the other (Basque or Spanish), but often people use a translated or shortened version.
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish [xoˈse] ; Portuguese [ʒuˈzɛ] (or [ʒoˈzɛ] ).
Silva, da Silva, and de Silva are surnames of Portuguese or Galician origin which are widespread in the Portuguese-speaking countries [1] [2] [3] including Brazil. [4] [5] The name is derived from Latin silva ("forest" or "woodland"). [citation needed] It is the family name of the House of Silva.
Pereira is a surname in the Portuguese and Galician languages, well known and quite common, mostly in Portugal, Galicia, Brazil, other regions of the former Portuguese Empire, among Galician descendants in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
Portuñol (Spanish spelling) or Portunhol (Portuguese spelling) (pronunciation ⓘ) is a portmanteau of the words portugués/português ("Portuguese") and español/espanhol ("Spanish"), and is the name often given to any non-systematic mixture of Portuguese and Spanish [1] (this sense should not be confused with the dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in northern Uruguay by the ...
Castro family coat of arms (Portugal). Castro is a Castilian surname popular in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries , coming from Latin castrum , meaning a castle or fortress. Its English equivalent is Chester .