What is the meaning for "cupertino" in Spanish?
Hi,
My son is working on his social study HW about Spanish places names in California. For example, "Fresno" means "ash tree". "Los Gatos" means "the cats". There is a town named Cupertino in California. But he had a trouble to find out what "cupertino" means in Spanish? Would you help him out?
Thanks, Jenny.
1 Answer
Cupertino was named after Arroyo San José de Cupertino (now Stevens Creek). The creek had been named by Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza's cartographer, who named it after Saint Joseph of Cupertino. Saint Joseph (born Giuseppe Maria Desa, and later known as Giuseppe da Copertino) was named after the town of Copertino in the Apulia region of Italy. The name Cupertino first became widely used when John T. Doyle, a San Francisco lawyer and historian, named his winery on McClellan Road "Cupertino". After the turn of the 20th century, Cupertino displaced the former name for the region, which was "West Side".Recently it tied up with Bhubaneswar in India as a sister city for mutual and co-lateral growth.
So the name is not Spanish at all, but Italian in origin.
