Cambre

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English

Proper noun

Cambre (plural Cambres)

  1. A surname from Anglo-Norman.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Cambre is the 25115th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 988 individuals. Cambre is most common among White (87.85%) individuals.

Anagrams

Galician

Santa María de Cambre church

Etymology

Attested as Calambre since the 10th century, in local Medieval Latin documents, and later as Caambre in Medieval Galician. From a substrate Celtic language, from a compound of *kala- (stone?) + the zero grade of *mrogis (mark, territory).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cambre

  1. A municipality of A Coruña, Galicia
  2. Santa María de Cambre (a parish of Cambre, A Coruña, Galicia)
  3. Santa Martiño de Cambre (a parish of Carballo, A Coruña, Galicia)
  4. A village in Cambre, Carballo, A Coruña, Galicia
  5. a habitational surname

References

  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “Calambre”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Cambre” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  • Cambre” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2012) Noms de lieux celtiques de l'Europe ancienne (-500 / +500): dictionnaire, Arles: Errance, →ISBN
  2. ^ Cf. Cabeza Quiles, Fernando (2021) Toponimia de Carballo, Real Academia Galega, →ISBN, retrieved 10 April 2021, page 46.