González

See also: Gonzalez

Galician

Etymology

From Gonzalo +‎ -ez.

Proper noun

González

1. a surname originating as a patronymic, son of Gonzalo

Spanish

Etymology

From Gonzalo +‎ -ez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ɡonˈθaleθ/ [ɡõn̟ˈθa.leθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ɡonˈsales/ [ɡõnˈsa.les]
• Rhymes: -aleθ
• Rhymes: -ales
• Syllabification: Gon‧zá‧lez

Proper noun

González m or f by sense

1. a surname originating as a patronymic, son of Gonzalo
   • 2007, Margaret Sayers Peden, editor, Mexican Writers on Writing (in English), →ISBN, page 40:

     MSP: Whatever González Martínez may confess or deny regarding the centrality of his avian metaphors in turn-of-the-century Mexican literature, he does reveal that they were primary in his own thought when he gave the title El hombre del buho (Man of the Owl, 1944) to one of his revealing autobiographical works, and La Muerte del cisne (The Death of the Swan), to his collection of poems published in 1915, some five years following the brouhaha of his “cygnicide.”

Descendants

• English: Gonzalez