Latas

Latas (Serbian: Латас) is a surname, found in many countries in Europe, mainly in Serbia, Poland, Croatia, but also Spain and Portugal from Middle Ages. However their mutual geographical and lexical origin is undetermined.

Slavic surname

This surname in the countries of ex-Yugoslavia is not tied to any ethnicity or confession, yet territory (Dinara). Croatian linguist, Petar Šimunović, derived Lat from personal name Láto (Latif), meaning gentle. The second part as is ending suffix, mostly found in personal names among Vlach pastoralist communities from Dinara.

List of people with surname Latas

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Latas Surname Meaning & Statistics". Forebears. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Šimunović, Petar (2008). Hrvatski prezimenik (in Croatian). Vol. Book 1. Zagreb: Golden marketing-Tehnička knjiga. pp. 40–41, 100–101. Petras, Juras, Lukas, Maras, Baras, Brnas, Pavas, Matas, Latas etc. Nisu dakle ta prezimena konfesionalno i etnički, nego teritorijalno prepoznatljiva ... Najčešće ga pratim na osobnim imenima i prezimenima Dinarskim gorjem, gdje je bilo rasprostranjeno i vlaško pučanstvo ... Prezimena na -as prostiru se u Hrvatskoj uglavnom Dinarskim gorjem. Ta su se prezimena selila, dakle, putovima srednjovjekovnih Vlaha i Albanaca i -as nalazimo često u njihovim prezimenima.
  3. ↑ Šimunović, Petar (2009). Uvod u hrvatsko imenoslovlje (in Croatian). Zagreb: Golden marketing-Tehnička knjiga. p. 170.
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