Talk:Arantes

Origin of name "Arantes"
According to several sources it comes from the Nantes (a place), later renamed to Arantes. João de Nantes would have been the first one to use the name. However laws of phonological evolution in Portuguese make it difficult to support this hypothesis.

There are two other options:
 * The common basque name 'Arantz' ('thorn', or 'hawthorn'), which is also a place and surname until today (under the current forms 'arantz', 'arantza', 'arantze' and 'arantxa'.
 * The latin word 'arantes' from 'arans', 'to plough'. Notice that in a 'latin revival', several words were reintroduced into Portuguese, superceding popular variants.