Capistrano

Capistrano

1. (informal) The city of San Juan Capistrano, California, known for its cliff swallows.
   • a. 2003, Talmage Powell, "Survival Exercise", in, 2003, Kit Duane, editor, The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 138,

     I felt the sick certainty that the thing had antennae, a sense unknown to human beings—a guidance system like the sonar of a bat, the instinct of a Capistrano swallow, the built-in controls of an SAM missile.

• apocritans, copartisan, postcrania

From Spanish. After Saint John of Capestrano.

• Hyphenation: Ca‧pis‧tra‧no
• IPA^(key): /ˌkapisˈtɾano/

Capistrano (Badlit spelling ᜃᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜇᜈᜓ)

1. a surname from Spanish
2. a male given name

Borrowed from Spanish, in honor of St. John to Capestrano.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kapisˈtɾano/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: Ca‧pis‧tra‧no

Capistrano (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜇᜈᜓ)

1. a Christian surname from Spanish

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Capistrano is the 261st most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 28,549 individuals.