Orlando

See also: orlando

English

Etymology

From Italian Orlando (“Roland”). The Floridian city has been called such since 1857, perhaps to honour the soldier Orlando Reeves, who Seminoles had killed there in 1835. (Previously, it had been settled in 1844 as Jernigan.)[1]

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: ôr-lănʹ-dō, IPA(key): /ɔɹ.ˈlæn.doʊ/

Proper noun

Orlando

  1. A male given name of Italian origin, equivalent to Roland.
    • 2010 Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 99:
      St. Oswald's boys were not called Ben. St Oswald's boys were called Leon, or Jasper, or Rufus or Sebastian. A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint.
  2. A surname​ derived from the given name.
  3. A city in Florida, see Orlando, Florida.

See also

References

  1. ↑ “Orlando” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

Anagrams

Italian

Proper noun

Orlando ?

  1. A male given name
  2. A surname​.
  3. Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Italian politician
  4. The city in Florida

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Orlando.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /oʁ.ˈlɐ̃.du/

Proper noun

Orlando m

  1. A male given name, equivalent to English Roland

Proper noun

Orlando f

  1. Orlando (a city in Florida, United States)
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