Surname · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Proença
Proença is a surname from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Proença comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Galician-Portuguese Proença, from Latin prōvincia.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Proença’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Proença as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Provença. In Portuguese usage, Proença as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with província.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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