Duarte

D2U1A1R1T1E1

proper noun

A surname from Portuguese or Spanish.

OriginPortuguese Duarte ← Middle English Edward ← Old English Ēadweard →
Less commonScrabble 7
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

proper nounDuarte (countable and uncountable, plural Duartes)

plural Duartes

  1. countableuncountableA surname from Portuguese or Spanish.

    Tenants Mauricio Alves Lucas, Samantha Rodrigues Siqueira, and Dayse Duarte (left to right) say they are owed deposits back from Spencer Accommodation

    2018 May 30, Jack Power, “Landlord criticised for witholding ^([sic]) deposits from 39 tenants”, in Irish Times
  2. countableuncountableA city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Origin

  1. SpanishDuarte
  2. Proto-Germanic*audaz
  3. Proto-Indo-European*wer-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*wor-tús
  5. Proto-Germanic*warduz
  6. Proto-Germanic*Audawarduz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*Audawardu
  8. Old EnglishĒadweard
  9. Middle EnglishEdward
  10. PortugueseDuarte
  11. EnglishDuarte

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Duarte. Doublet of Edward.

More words from Spanish and Portuguese

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Derutadurate
Cite this entry
APA

Duarte. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Duarte

MLA

“Duarte.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Duarte. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Duarte,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Duarte.

Source: Duarte on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.