Today’s Spanish word of the day is “nombre”.
It’s a masculine noun that usually translates as “name”. In particular, it refers to your first name, since the word for last name is “apellido”.
“Nombre” can also translate as “noun” when talking about grammar, though it is probably more common to use the word “sustantivo” to mean “noun”.
The word “nombre” comes from Latin nomen, which is also the root of several English words such as “anonymous”, “nominal” and “noun”.
The English word “name” derives from Old English nama, but both the Latin and Old English words ultimately come from Proto-Indo-European, the common ancestor of both the Germanic languages (such as English, German and Swedish), and the Romance languages (such as Spanish, French and Italian).
Example sentences
Mi nombre es David.
My name is David.
“Perro” es un nombre que se refiere a un animal.
“Dog” is a noun that refers to an animal.
En España, la gente suele tener dos apellidos y un nombre.
In Spain, people usually have two last names and one first name.
¿Cuál es tu nombre?
What’s your name?
El nombre de ese color es índigo.
The name of that color is indigo.
