Etymology

Roatan

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Today it means: An island, the largest of the Bay Islands, a department of Honduras, in the Caribbean Sea. Full definition →

Spanish Roatán
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  1. Spanish · borrowed fromRoatán
  2. English todayRoatan

From Spanish Roatán, a hispanicized form of a Pech name meaning, "water of the sun". The island had been formerly named by Christopher Columbus as Isla de los Pinos (“Pine Island”).

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