Caetano

Galician

Alternative forms
  • Caitán (given name)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Caiētānus (“inhabitant of Gaeta”), re-Latinized from Italian Gaetano, name of a saint. Compare Sicilian Caitanu.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaeˈtano̝/, /kae̯ˈtano̝/

Proper noun

Caetano m or f

  1. (masculine) a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Cajetan
  2. a surname

References
  • “Caetano” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Caiētānus (“inhabitant of Gaeta”), re-Latinized from Italian Gaetano, name of a saint. Compare Sicilian Caitanu.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.eˈtɐ̃.nu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.eˈtɐ.no/
 

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃nu, -ɐnu
  • Hyphenation: Ca‧e‧ta‧no

Proper noun

Caetano m

  1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Cajetan

Derived terms
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