Tavares
English
Proper noun
Tavares
- A city, the county seat of Lake County, Florida, United States.
Anagrams
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- Tàvares (obsolete outside of pronunciation respellings)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese Taavares, from Latin Talavus, Thalavus, of obscure origin. The surname is believed to be derived from the place name, though Talavus is already attested as an anthroponym since Roman times.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /taˈva.ɾis/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /taˈva.ɾiʃ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /taˈva.ɾes/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /taˈva.ɾɨʃ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /taˈba.ɾɨʃ/ [taˈβa.ɾɨʃ]
- Hyphenation: Ta‧va‧res
Proper noun
Tavares ?
- a surname
Proper noun
Tavares ?
- a civil parish of Viseu district, Portugal
- a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil