Damasco

Borrowed from Italian or Spanish Damasco; this surname is predominantly found in the Philippines.

Damasco (plural Damascos)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Damasco is the 39212^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 561 individuals. Damasco is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (37.97%), Hispanic/Latino (34.94%) and White (21.39%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Damasco”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 406.

• IPA^(key): /daˈmasko/ [d̪aˈmas̺.kʊ]
• Rhymes: -asko
• Hyphenation: Da‧mas‧co

Damasco ?

1. Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)

• IPA^(key): /daˈmas.ko/
• Rhymes: -asko
• Hyphenation: Da‧mà‧sco

Damasco f

1. Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)

Damasco m or f by sense

1. a surname

• damasco

• damasceno
• damaschino

• madosca

From Latin Damascus, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós), from Semitic.

• IPA^(key): /daˈmasko/

Damasco m

1. a city in modern Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 79r:

     Sant pablo q̃ ante auie nõbre ſaulus fue del tribu de beniamin naſcio en iuda e al ſegũdo año ap̃s dela paſſiõ de iħu xp̃o baptizo ananias e damaſco […]

     Saint Paul, who before had the name Saul, was of the tribe of Benjamin. He was born in Judea, and in the second year after the Passion of Jesus Christ Ananias baptized [him] in Damascus […]

• Spanish: Damasco

Learned borrowing from Latin Damascus.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -asku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃku
• Homophone: damasco
• Hyphenation: Da‧mas‧co

Damasco ?

1. Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)

• damasco

• damasceno
• damasquino

Inherited from Old Spanish Damasco, from Latin Damascus, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós), from Semitic.

• IPA^(key): /daˈmasko/ [d̪aˈmas.ko]
• Rhymes: -asko
• Syllabification: Da‧mas‧co

Damasco m

1. Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)

• moscada