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Martínez

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See also: Martinez

Spanish

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Etymology

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From Martín +‎ -ez. Compare Portuguese Martins and Galician Martís.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /maɾˈtineθ/ [maɾˈt̪i.neθ]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /maɾˈtines/ [maɾˈt̪i.nes]
  • Rhymes: -ineθ
  • Rhymes: -ines
  • Syllabification: Mar‧tí‧nez

Proper noun

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Martínez m or f by sense

  1. a surname originating as a patronymic, equivalent to English Martinez
    • 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

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  • English: Martinez
  • Chinese: 馬丁內斯 / 马丁内斯 (Mǎdīngnèisī) (transliteration)