Cerro

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Taos County, New Mexico, United States. countable, uncountable

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"Several years ago, U.S. and Italian scientists using satellite images created an atlas of metropolitan light emissions worldwide. Astronomer Malcolm Smith of the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile says the images suggest billions of dollars worth of lost energy is flowing upward."

Etymology

Two main origins: * Borrowed from Italian Cerro, a habitational surname from any of various places called Cerro, from cerro (“Turkey oak”). * Borrowed from Spanish Cerro, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a hill or ridge, from cerro (“hill, hillock”).

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