English Explanatory Dictionary

Osorio

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].

Word forms

Osorio Osorios

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Osorio, from Latin Osorius. According to the Dictionary of American Family Names, the Latin term may have originated from the metathesis of Orosius, itself perhaps derived from ὄρος (óros, “mountain”).

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