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Matos

Matos proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Matos (plural Matoses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of Matos

pluralMatoses
alternative formMattos

Origin of Matos

* As a Spanish and Galician surname, from the plural of mato (“brushwood”). See Mato. This is also found in Portuguese through placenames from the same noun. Compare De Matos. * As a Hungarian surname, variant of Matus. * As a Serbo-Croatian and Slovak surname Matoš, Máťoš, from a pet form of derivations of the name Matthaeus, see Matthew. This is also found in Slovene.

Questions about Matos

What does Matos mean?
Matos means a surname.
What part of speech is Matos?
Matos is a proper noun.

Words near Matos in the dictionary

  1. matoor
  2. matoppie
  3. Mator
  4. matorral
  5. matorrals
  6. Matos
  7. Matoses
  8. Matosinhos
  9. Matott
  10. Matotts
  11. Matou

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