Given name & surname
Olveira
“sedge”
Olveira is a surname from Latin. It is used in Galician.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Olveira goes back to Latin ulvaria, meaning “sedge.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Olveira’s family of names
In Galician usage, Olveira as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Portuguese form OLIVEIRA.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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