catano
/kɑtˈɑnoʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Etymology
* As a southern Italian surname, variant of the personal name Caetano, see also Gaetano. * Also as an Italian surname, from Old Italian cattano (“captain”) (see modern capitana), making it a variant of Cattaneo. * As a Sicilian surname, variant of Cattano, from the noun cotone (“cotton”). Sometimes found in Spanish as Cataño.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, cattano