GaËTan

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French form of Caietanus (see GAETANO).

GAETANO   male   Italian
Italian form of the Latin name Caietanus, which meant "from Caieta". Caieta (now called Gaeta) was a town in ancient Italy, its name deriving either from Kaiadas, the name a Greek location where prisoners were executed, or else from Caieta, the name of the nurse of Aeneas. This was the name of a 16th-century Italian saint.
EQUIVALENTS
CZECH: Kajetán
FRENCH: Gaétan
GERMAN: Kayetan
HISTORY: Cajetan
HUNGARIAN: Kajetán
ITALIAN: Gaetano
LATE ROMAN: Caietanus
POLISH: Kajetan
PORTUGUESE: Caetano
SLOVAK: Kajetán
SPANISH: Cayetano
FEMININE FORMS
FRENCH: Gaetane
ITALIAN: Gaetana