Surname · also Old Galician-Portuguese

Évora

“yew”

Évora is a surname from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Proto-Celtic. It is used in Portuguese.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Évora goes back to Proto-Celtic *eburos, meaning “yew.”

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Where it comes from

Évora comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Proto-Celtic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Old Galician-Portuguese Evora, from Latin Ebora, from Proto-Celtic *eburos (“yew”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Sibling ideas

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