Neto (suffix)
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Portuguese-language generational suffix
Neto[a] is a Portuguese-language generational suffix. As with its English-language equivalent III,[b] the suffix is placed after a boy or man's name when he, his father, and his grandfather all have the same name.
The following people bear the suffix Neto:
- António Agostinho Neto, former president of Angola
- Darcy Dolce Neto, Brazilian football (soccer) player
- Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto, Brazilian football (soccer) player
- Ernesto Neto, Brazilian visual artist
- Franco José Vieira Neto, Brazilian beach volleyball player
- João Cabral de Melo Neto, Brazilian poet
- João Marinho Neto, Brazilian supercentenarian, oldest living man
- José Ferreira Neto, Brazilian sports commentator and former association football player
- Luís Carlos Novo Neto, Portuguese footballer
- Michel Cury Neto, Brazilian footballer
- Norberto Murara Neto, Brazilian footballer
- Olyntho Neto (born 1986), Brazilian politician
- Otacílio Mariano Neto, Brazilian footballer
- Otacilio Jales da Silva Neto, Brazilian footballer
- Raul Bragança Neto, former prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe
- Raul "Raulzinho" Togni Neto, Brazilian basketball player
Notes
[edit ]- ↑ Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈnɛtu] , lit. 'grandson'
- ↑ As in, for example, Benigno Aquino III
See also
[edit ]- Filho (disambiguation) , a similar Portuguese-language generational suffix
- Netto (surname), a surname of which Neto is sometimes a variant
- Portuguese name
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