de Montibus (Latin), del Monte/da Monte (Italian) or de Monte/de Mont (French) is a topographic byname/surname [1] literally meaning "from the mountains/mountain". Notable people with the name include:
Sometimes the byname included the name or epithet of the mountain in question.
Rosa or De Rosa may refer to:
An epithet, also a byname, is a descriptive term commonly accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a real or fictitious person, place, or thing. It is usually literally descriptive, as in Alfred the Great, Suleiman the Magnificent, Richard the Lionheart, and Ladislaus the Short, or allusive, as in Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, Æthelred the Unready, John Lackland, Mehmed the Conqueror and Bloody Mary.
Monte may refer to:
Monte Viso or Monviso is the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps. It is located in Italy close to the French border. Monte Viso is well known for its pyramid-like shape. Because it is higher than all its neighbouring peaks by about 500 m, it can be seen from a great distance, including from the Piedmontese plateau, the Langhe, the Theodulpass in the Zermatt ski area, the col du Galibier and the summits of the Mont Blanc massif. On a very clear day, it can be seen from the spires of Milan Cathedral.
Porto may refer to a number of people, places, things may also refer to:
Da Ponte or dal Ponte is a topographic byname/surname literally meaning "from the bridge". Notable people with the name include:
Fitzstephen is an English language Hiberno-Norman surname. It is patronymic as the prefix Fitz- derives from the Old French filz, itself from Latin filius, meaning "son of". Its variants include FitzStephen, Fitz Stephen, Fitz-Stephen; alternate spelling Fitzstephens ; and the given name turned surname Stephen. Fitzstephen is rare as a given name. People with the name Fitzstephen include:
Heffernan is an Irish surname derived from the Gaelic Ó hIfearnáin, which comes from the byname Ifearnán literally meaning 'little demon' or more metaphorically 'daredevil'. Heffernan gives rise to alternatives such as Heffernon and Hefferan. The name sometimes contains the O' prefix. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Heffermans were the chiefly family of the Uaithni who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland between about 500 and 100 BC.
Delmonte is a topographic byname/surname literally meaning "from the mountains/mountain". Notable people with the surname include:
A nobiliary particle is a type of onomastic particle used in a surname or family name in many Western cultures to signal the nobility of a family. The particle used varies depending on the country, language and period of time. In some languages, it is the same as a regular prepositional particle that was used in the creation of many surnames. In some countries, it became customary to distinguish the nobiliary particle from the regular one by a different spelling, although in other countries these conventions did not arise, occasionally resulting in ambiguity. The nobiliary particle can often be omitted in everyday speech or certain contexts.
A canto is the principal form of division in a long poem.
A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name, which included names of specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or lands that they held, or, more generically, names that were derived from regional topographic features. Surnames derived from landscape/topographic features are called topographic surnames, e.g., de Montibus, de Ponte/Da Ponte/Dupont, de Castello, de Valle/del Valle, de Porta, de Vinea.
Gramont, Grammont, Grandmont, or variation, may refer to:
Sublette is a variant of the French language surname Soblet. Other variations include Sublet, Sublett, and Soublet. In the United States, the Soblet family name traces back to French Huguenot refugee Abraham Soblet and his family, who arrived in Virginia in 1700 and settled in Manakintown
di Antonio is an Italian surname. Notable people with this name include the following:
del Monte is a topographic byname/surname literally meaning "from the mountains/mountain".. Notable people with the name include:
Delmont is a topographic byname/surname literally meaning "from the mountains/mountain". Notable people with the surname include:
De Ponte is a topographic byname/surname literally meaning "from the bridge". Notable people with the name include:
De Porta is a topographic byname/surname literally meaning "by the gate". Notable people with the name include: