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Spanish
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese Vaasquez, from an earlier Velasco + -ez.[1] Velasco and Belasco are Romance forms of a name in a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia (probably Iberian or Basque ). Doublet of Velázquez, Blázquez, and Valesco.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈbaskeθ/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈbaskes/
- Rhymes: -askeθ
- Rhymes: -askes
- Syllabification: Vás‧quez
Proper noun
Vásquez m or f by sense
- a patronymical surname from Old Galician-Portuguese.
References
- ^ Lidia Becker (2009) Hispano-romanisches Namenbuch, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, retrieved 31 July 2018, page 260
Further reading
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Vaasque”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG