Given name & surname · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Coimbra
Coimbra is a surname, possibly from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Proto-Celtic. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Coimbra possibly comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Proto-Celtic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Possibly from Old Galician-Portuguese Coimbra, from Latin Conimbriga, from Proto-Celtic *brigā.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Coimbra’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Coimbra as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Conímbriga.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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