MEANING & HISTORY
What does Restituto mean?
Restituto continues Latin Restitutus through Spanish. The Latin participle means restored or reinstated, from the verb restituere.
It became a personal name and appears in Christian saint traditions. The interpretation concerns restoration rather than the different Latin resurrection-name family. It does not establish that a particular bearer experienced a recovery or was named after a legal restitution.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Tagalog
- /ɾestiˈtuto/
- [ɾɛs.t̪ɪˈt̪uː.t̪o]
Res · ti · tu · to4 written divisions
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Origin and name formation
Latin / Spanish
Dictionary accounts by language
Tagalog
Borrowed from Spanish Restituto, from Latin Restitūtus, from restitūtus (“reinstated; restituted”).
a male given name from Spanish
Wiktionary: Restituto (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cebuano
From Spanish Restituto.
a male given name from Spanish
Wiktionary: Restituto (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract; common glosses translated for Filipino.
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- Redito·As a Portuguese word: said again or repeated
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- Reino♂Finnish Reynold form; Spanish word for kingdom
- Remberto·Spanish Rembert-family form: counsel + bright
- Remigio♂Form of Remigius; oarsman
- Renato♂Born again; reborn
- Reparato·Documented Reparatus personal-name form
- Resty·Documented familiar form of Restituto
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Records & sources
Recorded use
- OpenHalalan / COMELEC · 2001
- 12 elected-candidate records ·
RESTITUTO
· CSV row 933 · ODbL 1.0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Restituto (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Restituto (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Restituto (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: restitutus (opens in a new tab)