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Where does “Azores” come from?

Azores comes from Portuguese Açores, from Portuguese açores, from Portuguese açor, from Old Portuguese açor, from Latin accipiter meaning hawk, ultimately from Latin ad-.

Ancestry of “Azores”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PortugueseAçoresAzores
2Portugueseaçorgoshawk
3Old Portugueseaçorgoshawk
4Vulgar Latinacceptorfirst-person singular present passive indicative...
5Latinaccipiterhawk, merlin; a rapacious man
6LatinaccipioI receive, accept, take; I hear , learn , learn;...
7Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
8Latinīn-—
9Latinîn—
10Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
11Proto-Italicenin
12Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “Azores”

  • Azorean
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