Don (honorific)

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Don (Spanish: [don]; Italian: [dɔn]; Portuguese: 'Dom' [dõ], from Latin dominus), abbreviated as D., is an honorific prefix used in Spain and the former Spanish Empire, Croatia, Italy, and Portugal and its former colonies.[1]

Don, and dom, is came from the Latin Dominus: the most important member of a household, a title used during the Roman Republic in classical antiquity.

References

  1. Recopilación de Leyes de los Reynos de las Indias (in es) Libro Sexto (1680). Retrieved 2022-03-03.