Martínez
See also: Martinez
Spanish
Etymology
From Martín + -ez. Compare Portuguese Martins and Galician Martís.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maɾˈtineθ/ [maɾˈt̪i.neθ] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /maɾˈtines/ [maɾˈt̪i.nes] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -ineθ (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ines (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: Mar‧tí‧nez
Proper noun
Martínez m or f by sense
- a surname, Martinez, originating as a patronymic
- 2007, Margaret Sayers Peden, editor, Mexican Writers on Writing (in English), →ISBN, page 40:
- MSP: Whatever González Martínez may confess or deny regarding the centrality of his avian metaphors in turn-of-the-century Mexican literature, he does reveal that they were primary in his own thought when he gave the title El hombre del buho (Man of the Owl, 1944) to one of his revealing autobiographical works, and La Muerte del cisne (The Death of the Swan), to his collection of poems published in 1915, some five years following the brouhaha of his “cygnicide.”