Mallorca
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From Spanish Mallorca or Catalan Mallorca, from Late Latin Maiorica, ultimately from Latin maior.
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Mallorca
- Alternative form of Majorca
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From Late Latin Maiorica, from Latin maior (“larger”), because the island is larger than Menorca. The change from -i- to -ll- is a hypercorrection against the iodització of the Mallorcan dialect of Catalan.
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Mallorca f
- Mallorca
- Hyponyms: Llevant, Migjorn, Palma, Pla de Mallorca, Raiguer, Serra de Tramuntana
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Mallorca f (related adjective mallorský, demonym Mallorčan, female demonym Mallorčanka)
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Mallorca n (proper noun, genitive Mallorcas or (optionally with an article) Mallorca)
- Mallorca, Majorca (the largest island of the Balearic Islands of Spain)
- Synonyms: (colloquially) Malle, (humorous) 17. Bundesland
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- “Mallorca” in Duden online
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From Old Spanish Mayorca, from Late Latin Maiorica, from Latin maior (“larger”), because the island is larger than Minorca.
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Mallorca f
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From Spanish.
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Mallorca (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎ᜔ᜌᜓᜇ᜔ᜃ)
- a surname from Spanish
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According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Mallorca is the 1,172st most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 8,507 individuals.