apellido

See also: apellidó

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

apellido m (plural apellidos)

1. Obsolete spelling of apelido.

Etymology 2

Verb

apellido

1. Obsolete spelling of apelido.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /apeˈʝido/ [a.peˈʝi.ð̞o]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /apeˈʝido/ [a.peˈʝi.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /apeˈʎido/ [a.peˈʎi.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /apeˈʃido/ [a.peˈʃi.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /apeˈʒido/ [a.peˈʒi.ð̞o]

• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: a‧pe‧lli‧do

Etymology 1

Deverbal from apellidar.

Noun

apellido m (plural apellidos)

1. surname, last name

   Hypernym: nombre

2. (figuratively) a trait, activity, or action closely associated with or aptly describing a person; an appellation

   «Rápido» es mi apellido.

   "Fast" is my middle name.

Derived terms

• apellido materno
• apellido paterno
• primer apellido
• segundo apellido

 

Related terms

• apelar

 

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: apelyido
• → Chamorro: apeyido
• → Tagalog: apelyido

Etymology 2

Verb

apellido

1. first-person singular present indicative of apellidar

Further reading

• “apellido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10