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Alcantara

Alcantara

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A family name from Spain and Portugal
  • proper noun
translation icon : Alcántara
  • In this place, identified by letter N in the key as the reduction of San Pedro Alcantara, baptism turns into an outdoor celebratory event and includes native musicians, themselves symbolic of successful acculturation, and Christianized Amerindians coming voluntarily to attend the ceremony.
  • Pedro Alcantara
  • de Alcantara

Examples

  • "Many people admire the skills of Sergio Alcantara in baseball."

  • One of them sneaks threateningly into the town of San Pedro Alcantara and is seen near another creature (lizard or iguana?) in the area above the building with a cross at lower right (Fig. 6)

    Academic text (2012)

  • Borrowing from Hewitt de Alcantara (1993), economists need to go beyond abstractions in our analysis of markets toward a political economy of real markets.

    Academic text (1996)

  • For an analysis of ejido reform and rural restructuring, see Hewitt de Alcantara (1994).

    Academic text (1996)

  • "Diego Alcantara is my favorite player on the team."

  • "I met Rose Alcantara at the community center last week."

Surface Forms

Alcantara main

Etymology

Alcantara (the surname) originally marked people who came from a place called Alcantara, which itself comes from Arabic al- 'the' and qantara 'bridge'. So the family name often means someone 'from the bridge' or from that town.