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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from merenda, from Late Latin merenda ‘evening meal’; however, it may have retained the meaning of Latin merere ‘to merit’ in the sense ‘worthy cause’, ‘thing of merit’.
  • Portuguese : from merenda ‘light meal’, cognate with 1.

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