Estévez
Galician
Alternative forms
- Esteves
Etymology
From the Medieval form Estevanez, later Estevees or Esteveez; from Latin Stephanus + the patronymical suffix -ez. Originally meaning "son/daughter of Stephan", and so being equivalent to English Stevenson.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈteβeθ̝/
Proper noun
Estévez m
- a surname transferred from the given name
Related terms
- Esteves
- Estevez
- Estevo
References
- “estevee” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- "Estévez" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Galician Estévez
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /esˈtebeθ/ [esˈt̪e.β̞eθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /esˈtebes/ [esˈt̪e.β̞es]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -ebeθ
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -ebes
- Syllabification: Es‧té‧vez
Proper noun
Estévez m or f by sense
- a surname from Galician [in turn originating as a patronymic]