The name Horacio is found sporadically throughout all Latinamerica.
Historical Figures
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Horacio Quiroga
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 – 19 February 1937) was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer.
He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, used the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of ...
, an Uruguayan author and writer.
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Horacio Carochi
Horacio Carochi (1586–1666) was a Jesuit priest and grammarian who was born in Florence and died in New Spain. He is known for his grammar of the Classical Nahuatl language.
Life
Carochi was born in Florence. He went to Rome where he entered ...
, an Italian Jesuit priest and grammarian
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Horacio Pagani (auto executive)
Horacio Pagani (born 10 November 1955) is an Argentine-Italian businessman and engineer in the automotive industry. He is the founder of Pagani Automobili S.p.A., an Italian specialty auto-maker.
Prior to founding his own company, Pagani worke ...
(born 1955), Argentinian founder of Pagani Automobili S.p.A.
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Horacio Pagani (sportswriter)
Horacio Pagani (born November 9, 1943) is a prominent Argentine sportswriter and sportscaster.
Life and work
Pagani was born in Buenos Aires, in 1943. He was first hired as a sports journalist by the leading Argentine news daily, '' Clarín'', in ...
(born 1948), Argentine sportswriter and sportscaster
Meaning
The name Horacio is a boy's name with Latin origins that means timekeeper.
Origin
The masculine name Horacio \ho-ra-cio\ is a variant of
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...
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Baby Name Horacio – Origin and Meaning of Horacio
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See also
See also the similarly spelled name Horatio
Horatio is an English male given name, an Italianized form of the ancient Roman Latin '' nomen'' (name) '' Horatius'', from the Roman '' gens'' (clan) '' Horatia''. The modern Italian form is ''Orazio'', the modern Spanish form ''Horacio''. It app ...
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Spanish masculine given names
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