Vázquez
See also: Vazquez
Galician
Alternative forms
- Vasques, Vásquez
Etymology
From Old Portuguese Vaasquez, from Old Portuguese Veasquez, from an earlier Velasquiz, from Belasco + -ez, meaning "son/daughter of Belasco".[1] Velasco or Belasco are Romance forms of a name in a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.
Cognate with Portuguese Vasques, Spanish Velázquez and Blázquez.
Proper noun
Vázquez
- a patronymical surname
References
- “Vaasque” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “Vázquez” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Lidia Becker (2009) Hispano-romanisches Namenbuch, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, retrieved 31 July 2018, page 260
Spanish
Proper noun
Vázquez ?
- Alternative form of Vásquez