English Explanatory Dictionary

Rodrigues

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname originating as a patronymic
  2. An outer island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean.

Word forms

Rodrigues

Etymology

From Portuguese Rodrigues (“son of Rodrigo”). Also from Spanish Rodrigues, variant spelling of Rodríguez. The island is named after Portuguese explorer Diogo Rodrigues (c. 1490–1577).

Related words

Rodriguez

Derived words

Rodrigues solitaire
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on R Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary