Moscoso

From Spanish Moscoso, from Galician Moscoso.

Moscoso (plural Moscosos)

1. A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician].

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Moscoso is the 11739^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2669 individuals. Moscoso is most common among Hispanic/Latino (86.77%) individuals.

From Latin muscōsum, accusative singular of muscōsus, meaning mossy. Doublet of musgoso. Early forms of the surname came in the form "Mosscosso," which supports the aforementioned origin, given it is the voicing of late Latin 's' that gave rise to the g in 'sc' clusters in Spanish and Galician (such as in musgoso). Alternatively, from mosca (“fly”) +‎ -oso (“place with”). However, there are few, if any examples, in which Latin word-final "a" becomes "o", making this latter etymology unlikely. The surname, from a Galician Medieval noble house.

• IPA^(key): /mosˈkoso̝/

Moscoso

1. A parish of Pazos de Borbén, Pontevedra, Galicia
2. A village in Rodeiro parish, Oza-Cesuras, A Coruña, Galicia
3. A village in Ardemil parish, Ordes, A Coruña, Galicia
4. a toponymical surname
   • 1467, J. A. Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Iria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 102:

     Enã era de mjll et quatroçentos et saseẽta et çinquo, prendeu Vernaldo Eanes de Moscoso ao arçobispo de Santiago, don Afonso de Fonseca, eña villa de Noya, et o teuo preso dous años, pouquo mays.

     In the year of 1465 Bernaldo Eanes of Moscoso captured the archbishop of Santiago [de Compostela], Don Afonso de Fonseca, in the town of Noia, and he kept him imprisoned for two year, or a little more

• “Moscoso” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “Moscoso” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
• “Moscoso” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.

Borrowed from Spanish Moscoso, from Galician Moscoso. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .

• IPA^(key): /mosˈkoso/, [mosˈko.so]

Moscoso

1. a surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician], common in Antique

• IPA^(key): /mosˈkoso/ [mosˈko.so]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: Mos‧co‧so

Moscoso m or f by sense

1. a surname from Galician