Calviño

See also: Calvino

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From calvo (“bald”) +‎ -iño, a diminutive/affective suffix. Compare French Chauvin and English Calvin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɑlˈβiɲʊ]

Proper noun

Calviño ?

  1. a surname

References

  • “Calviño” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Caluiño”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
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