Leite

name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Etymology

* As a German surname, from the female personal name Aleite, shortened from the name Adelheid. * As a Norwegian surname, from the name of several farmsteads in Norway, from Old Norse leiti (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hliþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean, slope”). * As a Portuguese surname, from the noun leite (“milk”).

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