Cetina
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Cetina.
Proper noun
[edit]Cetina
Etymology 2
[edit]Three possible origins:
- Borrowed from Spanish Cetina, a habitational surname from a small village in Aragona.
- Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Cetina, a habitational surname from a small village in Croatia or from the river which flows by it.
- Borrowed from Slovene Četina, a nickname for a hairy or bearded man, from a dialect form of ščetina (“bristle”).
Proper noun
[edit]Cetina (plural Cetinas)
- A surname.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Cetina is the 40672nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 537 individuals. Cetina is most common among Hispanic/Latino (80.45%) and White (19.18%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cetina”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 313.
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- English terms borrowed from Serbo-Croatian
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- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English terms borrowed from Slovene
- English terms derived from Slovene
- English surnames
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- English surnames from Serbo-Croatian
- English surnames from Slovene
- English surnames from Spanish