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Origin of name "Arantes"

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According to several sources it comes from the Nantes (a place), later renamed to Arantes. João de Nantes would have been the first one to use the name.[1] However laws of phonological evolution in Portuguese make it difficult to support this hypothesis.

There are two other options:

  • The common basque name 'Arantz' ('thorn', or 'hawthorn'), which is also a place and surname until today (under the current forms 'arantz', 'arantza', 'arantze' and 'arantxa'. [2]
  • The latin word 'arantes' from 'arans', 'to plough'. Notice that in a 'latin revival', several words were reintroduced into Portuguese, superceding popular variants.

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References

  1. ^ "O nome Arantes".
  2. ^ "Morris Student Plus - Dictionary of Basque". Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  3. ^ "arans". Retrieved 28 February 2011.