Etymology

Penrose

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Today it means: A surname from Cornish. Full definition →

Cornish penn
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The story

  1. Cornish · derived frompenn“head”
  2. English todayPenrose

From Cornish penn (“head”) + ros (“moor, heathland”).

Words from the same roots

Cornishpenn all →

Pentreath

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.