Cajetan

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English form of CAIETANUS.

CAIETANUS   male   Late Roman
Latin form of 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, Gaëtan
GERMAN: Kayetan
HUNGARIAN: Kajetán
ITALIAN: Gaetano
LATE ROMAN: Caietanus
POLISH: Kajetan
PORTUGUESE: Caetano
SLOVAK: Kajetán
SPANISH: Cayetano
FEMININE FORMS
FRENCH: Gaetane
ITALIAN: Gaetana