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Galician
Etymology
From calvo (“bald”) + -iño, a diminutive/affective suffix. Compare French Chauvin and English Calvin.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Calviño
- 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: ILG