"Matos" meaning in English

See Matos in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Matoses [plural], Mattos [alternative]
Etymology: * As a Spanish and Galician surname, from the plural of mato (“brushwood”). See Mato. This is also found in Portuguese through placenames from the same noun. Compare De Matos. * As a Hungarian surname, variant of Matus. * As a Serbo-Croatian and Slovak surname Matoš, Máťoš, from a pet form of derivations of the name Matthaeus, see Matthew. This is also found in Slovene. Etymology templates: {{der|en|es|-}} Spanish, {{der|en|gl|-}} Galician, {{der|en|pt|-}} Portuguese, {{der|en|hu|-}} Hungarian, {{der|en|sh|-}} Serbo-Croatian, {{der|en|sk|-}} Slovak, {{der|en|sl|-}} Slovene Head templates: {{en-proper noun|es}} Matos (plural Matoses)
  1. A surname.

Inflected forms

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