Given name · also Latin
Balduíno
“bold friend”
Balduíno is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Portuguese.
Original LatinBalduinus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Balduíno goes back to Proto-Germanic *Balþawiniz, meaning “bold friend.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Balduíno comes from Latin, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Balduinus, from Frankish *Baldawin, from Proto-Germanic *Balþawiniz (“bold friend”); its root is Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Balduíno’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Balduíno was borrowed from the Latin form BALDUINUS. In Galician usage, Balduíno has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form VALDIVINO.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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