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Origin of the name GERONIMO.
Etymology of the
name GERONIMO.
Meaning of the baby name GERONIMO.
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GERONIMO.
Italian and Spanish (Gerónimo) form of Latin Hieronymus
(q.v.), English and French Jerome
(q.v.), meaning "holy name." This is the name the Mexicans
gave to Goyathlay (q.v.),
chief of the Chiricahua
Apache, during the Apache Wars. (Handbook of American Indians North of
Mexico, Hodge, 1907). It has the feminine Geronima.
... St. Hieronymus... As a saint of high
reputation, his name underwent the Italian process of changing its
aspirate into a G, and he became San Geronimo, or even Girolamo,...
(History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884).
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