English Explanatory Dictionary

Corstorphine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A suburb of Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2073).
  2. A suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
  3. A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn from Old Norse].

Word forms

Corstorphine Corstorphines Carstarphen

Etymology

Perhaps from Scottish Gaelic cros (“cross”) + Torfin, a Gaelicized form of the Old Norse personal name Þorfinnr.

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