Nuño Explained

Spanish; Castilian: Nuño|italic=no (Spanish) or Catalan; Valencian: Nunyo|italic=no (Catalan) is a masculine given name of Latin origin (Latin: Nunnus, Latin: Nonnus, Latin: Nunus, Latin: Nunno and so on). Its Portuguese form is Portuguese: [[Nuno (given name)|Nuno]]|italic=no. Its patronymic is Spanish; Castilian: [[Núñez]] . Already in the Middle Ages the name was being confused with the similar but distinct name Munio.^[1]

The meaning of the name is disputed. It could come from late Latin, meaning 'tutor', later 'monk'. The classicist Iiro Kajanto proposed a Celtic origin, since the name is mainly found in formerly Celtic-speaking parts of Spain.^[2]

People with the given name Nuño

• Nuño Rasura (9th century), one of two legendary judges of Castile
• Nuño Fernández (fl. 920–27), count of Castile
• Nuño I (bishop of Mondoñedo) (1025–1027), a medieval Galician bishop
• Nuño Álvarez de Carazo (floruit 1028–1054), a Castilian nobleman, diplomat, and warrior
• Nuño Alfonso (1112–1136), a medieval Galician bishop
• Nuño Pérez de Lara (died 3 August 1177). a Castilian nobleman, politician and military leader
• Nuño Sánchez (c. 1185 – 1242), a nobleman in the Crown of Aragon
• Nuño González de Lara (died 1275), a Castilian nobleman, royal counsellor and military leader
• Nuño González de Lara (died 1291), a Castilian nobleman and military leader of the House of Lara
• Nuño González de Lara (died 1296), a Castilian noble of the House of Lara
• Nuño de Guzmán (c. 1490 – 1558), a Spanish conquistador and colonial administrator in New Spain

People with the surname Nuño

• Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño (1913–1976) was a Spanish art historian, author, teacher, and art critic.

See also

• Neno (name)
• Nino (name)
• Niño (name)
• Nuno (disambiguation)
• Nuño Álvarez (disambiguation)
• Nuño González de Lara (disambiguation)
• Nuño Gómez, a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Spain

Notes and References

1. Jaime de Salazar Acha (1985), "Una familia de la Alta Edad Media: Los Vela y su realedad histórica", Estudios Genealógicos y Heráldicos (Madrid: Asociación Española de Estudios Genealogicos y Heraldicos), vol. 1, p. 24n.
2. Lidia Becker (2009), Hispano-romanisches Namenbuch: Untersuchung der Personennamen vorrömischer, griechischer und lateinisch-romanischer Etymologie auf der Iberischen Halbinsel im Mittelalter (6.–12. Jahrhundert) (De Gruyter), pp. 773ff.