Surname · also Serbo-Croatian
Brâncoveanu
“to defend”
Brâncoveanu is a surname from Serbo-Croatian, ultimately from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Romanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Brâncoveanu goes back to a word meaning “to defend.”
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Where it comes from
Brâncoveanu comes from Serbo-Croatian, and ultimately from Proto-Slavic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Serbo-Croatian Brankov, from Proto-Slavic *borniti, built from Romanian Brancov + -eanu.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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