Sotomayor

S1O1T1O1M3A1Y4O1R1

proper noun

A surname from Spanish or Galician.

OriginGalician Soutomaior →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A surname from Spanish or Galician.

    Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law.

    2024 April 3, Stephen Breyer, “Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2024

Origin

  1. GalicianSoutomaior
  2. EnglishSotomayor

From a Spanish habitational surname Sotomayor, from a locality in Galicia called Galician Soutomaior, from souto (“grove”) + maior (“larger”).

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APA

Sotomayor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sotomayor

MLA

“Sotomayor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sotomayor. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sotomayor,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sotomayor.

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