Etymology

Ochoa

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Spanish Ochoa ← Basque otsoa
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The story

  1. Basque · derived fromotsoa
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromOchoa
  3. English todayOchoa

Borrowed from Spanish Ochoa, from Basque otsoa, otxoa (“wolf”).

Words from the same roots

Basqueotsoa all →

ossa

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.