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"DIEGO" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heel holder", "a supplanter". |
Date "DIEGO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
"DIEGO" is a common misspelling or typo for: dingo. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Diego (San). A corruption of Santiago (St. James), champion of the red cross, and patron saint of Spain. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DIEGO |
| English words defined with "DIEGO": San Andreas Fault, San Diego, San'a ♦ Tijuana. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DIEGO": CALIFORNIA UTILITY RESEARCH COUNCIL, CMS-2 ♦ Glish ♦ Hagarenes ♦ Lazarillo de Tormes ♦ Regions, Geographic ♦ Una Serranilla ♦ YAUN. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DIEGO": Dago. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DIEGO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (Diego), Serbo-Croatian (diego), Spanish (James). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The number of that San Diego office (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire) True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend (Old School; writing credit: Court Crandall; Todd Phillips) San Diego has a big carjacking problem (Flirting with Disaster; writing credit: David O. Russell) Backed-up sewer line, this happened in San Diego last week (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Don Diego Vega (Zorro, the Gay Blade; writing credit: Greg Alt; Hal Dresner) | |
Lyrics | It's all good, from Diego to tha Bay (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) San Diego to Savannah, (If You Can Do Anything Else; performing artist: George Strait) | |
Movie/TV Titles | San Diego MCRD (1973) Diego Corrientes (1959) San Diego I Love You (1944) Down in San Diego (1941) Diego Corrientes (1937) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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![]() | San Diego, California Survey by Sub-Assistant A.M. Harrison, 1851 Topographic Survey T-333. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Chart of the United States West Coast from San Francisco to San Diego. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Mission of San Diego, Plate XII. In: Reports of Explorations and Surveys .... Vol. 5, p. 40. Commonly known as Pacific Railroad Surveys. Call Number F593 .U58. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | The boundary monument between the United States and Mexico just south of San Diego. This also gives a good seaward view of Tijuana Slough, now part of the the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. In: Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. . By George Davidson, 1869. P. 8. Library Call Number VK947.D4 1869. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
![]() | Various fishing vessels at San Diego. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | Chagos, Diego Garcia Island. Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth. |
![]() | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Taylor's Sea Slug, Phyllaplysia taylori, is common on blades of eelgrass (Zostera sp.) in low intertidal areas from Nanaimo, British Columbia to San Diego, California. The body is dorsoventrally flattened and from 25 to 45 cm long. Its color mimics Zostera, with a bright green base with brown-black and white spots. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). | ![]() | The RONALD H. BROWN in drydock in San Diego. A new coat of paint and the ship looks as good as new. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | A view of the stern and stern thrusters of the RONALD H. BROWN while in drydock at San Diego. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Contrails south of San Diego. TIROS V orbit 3343. In: "The Best of TIROS," NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, 1965. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "San Diego at Night 1" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "View of Broadway street, downtown San Diego." | "Prado Stairway" by Larry Silva Commentary: "A really cool hallway in Balboa Park, San Diego." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Paul, Newark, Boston, Detroit, New Orleans, and San Diego. (references) | |
From the University of California, San Diego Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. (references) | ||
Paul, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, New Orleans, Newark, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Boston, and Denver. (references) | ||
Business | Icon Group has field offices in San Diego, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong and Lomé, Togo (West Africa). (references) | |
Most purchasing managers of the large maquiladora plants are located at the parent company in the United States, many of them in San Diego. (references) | ||
The study will focus on finding the routes that could pass through Mexico and/or the United States to serve Tijuana/Rosarito and San Diego. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Mauritius | In November 2000, a group of citizens who are natives of the Chagos Archipelago (also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory) won a lawsuit against the British Government that claimed they had been removed illegally from their homeland in 1971. In response to the lawsuit, the British Government ruled that the Chagossians could return to the outer islands of the archipelago but not to Diego Garcia. (references) |
Economic History | Chile | The first Europeans to arrive in Chile were Diego de Almagro and his band of Spanish conquistadors in 1541, who came from Peru in 1535 seeking gold. (references) |
Madagascar | European contact began in the 1500s, when Portuguese sea captain Diego Dias sighted the island after his ship became separated from a fleet bound for India. (references) | |
Human Rights | El Salvador | The appeals court upheld the lower court's decision that the trial against a sixth defendant, Diego Flores, (a lower ranking former guerilla), could proceed on kidnaping charges. (references) |
Colombia | The investigation continued of the December 2000 killing of congressional peace commission chairman Diego Turbay Cote, his mother councilwoman Ines Cote, and five other persons in Caqueta department (near the FARC demilitarized zone). (references) | |
Colombia | In June a Rionegro, Antioquia department, court convicted in absentia army major David Hernandez Rojas and army captain Diego Fino Rodriguez of aggravated homicide in the 1999 murder of Antioquia peace commissioner (and former Vice Minister for Youth) Alex Lopera and two other persons, and sentenced them to 50 years in prison. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DIEGO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DIEGO" is used about 362 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 362 | 14,906 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DIEGO" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Diego | First name Male | 11,000 | 640 |
| Diego | Last name | 1,000 | 7,545 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "DIEGO" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heel holder", "a supplanter". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "DIEGO." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| James | Male | Biblical | Jacob |
| Jacob | Male | Dutch | N/A |
| Jacob | Male | English | N/A |
| James | Male | English | Jacob |
| Diogo | Male | Portuguese | Diego |
| Thiago | Male | Portuguese | Diego |
| Tiago | Male | Portuguese | Diego |
| Jacob | Male | Scandinavian | N/A |
| Diego | Male | Spanish | Santiago |
| Santiago | Male | Spanish | James |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "DIEGO": Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez ♦ Rancho San Diego ♦ san diego ♦ San Diego Bay ♦ San Diego Country Estates ♦ San Diego County. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DIEGO": Diego-based. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "DIEGO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 聖迭哥 (San Diego). (various references) | |
Dutch | Texaanse padhagedis (Blainville horned lizard, San Diego horned lizard, Texas horned lizard). (various references) | |
French | tapaya (San Diego horned lizard), lézard cornu de San Diego (San Diego horned lizard). (various references) | |
German | Diego. (various references) | |
Italian | frinosoma coronata di San Diego (Blainville horned lizard, San Diego horned lizard, Texas horned lizard). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | サンケア指数 (belt, carefree, Saint-Simonism, San Diego, sand, sandal, sandwich, sandwich man, Sankei Sports, Sanskrit, sans-souci, Santa Clara, Santa Claus, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Maria, soundtrack, sun deck, sun protection index, sundae, sunset, sunshade, sunshine, suntan, suntan oil, Suntory, Suntory Hall, syndicalism, syndicalist, thunder, thunderbird). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | サンディエゴ (San Diego). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iegoday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lagarto corredor de garganta laranja (Blainville horned lizard, San Diego horned lizard, Texas horned lizard). (various references) | |
Russian | диего. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | diego. (various references) | |
Spanish | iguana cornuda (Blainville horned lizard, San Diego horned lizard, Texas horned lizard). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"DIEGO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adyebo, Ciegos, dego, Deigo, deigu, diago, digo, Dileo, Dilga, Dimeco, Disegno, Dorego, ideog, Idigo, Wiyogo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dogie, geoid. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-o" | |
-1 letter: doge, gied. | |
-2 letters: die, dig, doe, dog, ego, ged, gid, gie, god, ode. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, go, id, od, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-o" | |
+1 letter: doggie, dogies, geodic, geoids, goodie. | |
+2 letters: bigoted, boogied, coigned, demigod, demoing, dingoes, dodgier, doggier, doggies, doglike, ergodic, eroding, firedog, geoidal, glenoid, gloried, godlier, godlike, goodies, grodier, groined, hogtied, ignored, ingoted, mendigo, negroid, obliged, podgier, redoing, wendigo, widgeon. | |
+3 letters: agonised, agonized, amidogen, codesign, cognised, cognized, cosigned, deboning, decoding, decoying, demigods, demoting, denoting, deponing, deposing, detoxing, devoting, diagnose, dialoged, dialoger, dialogue, digestor, disgorge, dislodge, dodgiest, dogeship, doggiest, doughier, dovening, doweling, dowering, dozening, eloigned, encoding, endowing, firedogs, foliaged, genocide, geodesic, geodetic, goadlike, godliest, goodlier, goodwife, gossiped, grodiest, gueridon, gynecoid, idealogy, ideogram, ideology, indigoes, mendigos, mislodge, modeling, negroids, ordering, organdie, outguide, overgild, overgird, podgiest, porridge, recoding, ringdove, rodeoing, sidelong, smidgeon, stodgier, wendigos, widgeons, yodeling. | |
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