English
Orbán
Orbán comes from Hungarian Orbán, from Latin Urbānus ‘of or belonging to a city’, and ultimately from urbs.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEurbs‘city’next step skipped: Latin urbānus
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEUrbānus‘of or belonging to a city’
- HungarianmodernOrbán
- Englishearliest quotation 2004same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEurbs‘city’next step skipped: Latin urbānus
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEUrbānus‘of or belonging to a city’
- HungarianmodernOrbán
- Englishearliest quotation 2004same form
Earliest quotation: 2004, Julian Rubinstein, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists: “The Orbans were the Kennedys of Hungarian hockey, such…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ- ‘to enclose’
through Latin urbs ‘city’
through Latin Urbānus ‘of or belonging to a city’
Today it means
name A surname from Hungarian.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin urbs / Orbán