 Ortega shield (quartered) | |
| Pronunciation | UK: /ɔːrˈteɪɡə/ US: /ɔːrˈtiːɡə/ Spanish: [oɾˈteɣa] |
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| Language(s) | Spanish |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Latin |
| Word/name | ū̆rtīca |
| Meaning | 'nettle', from a toponym |
| Region of origin | Spain; from the Autonomous Communities of: Castile and León, Aragon, Navarre, La Rioja, Cantabria, Basque Country |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Ortego, de Ortega, Ortegón, Ortegada, Ortegal, Hortega, Ortiga, Ortigueda, Ortigueira, Ortigosa, Orreaga |
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Ortega is a Spanish surname. A baptismal record in 1570 records a de Ortega "from the village of Ortega". There were several villages of this name in Spain. The toponym derives from Latin urtica, meaning 'nettle'.
Some of the Ortega spelling variants are Ortega, Ortego, de Ortega, Ortegada, Ortegal, Hortega, Ortiga, Ortigueda, Ortigueira, Ortigosa, Orreaga, etc. A cognate surname in Italian is Ortica or Ortichi,[3] in Romanian Urzică, in French Ortie, all from Latin urtica.
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- ^ Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0.
- ^ Caffarelli, Enzo; Marcato, Carla (2008). I cognomi d'Italia: dizionario storico ed etimologico. Tutta l'Italia per nome e cognome (in Italian). Vol. 2. Turin: UTET. p. 1237. ISBN 978-88-02-08062-8.