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Old June 13, 2014, 04:39 AM
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Arturo Pérez Reverte's character "Capitán Alatriste" , has a name that shows very clear Hispanic resonances; however the name Alatriste does not exist in Spain. The writer and member of the Real academia española de la lengua ,explains that he found the name in Mexico, where he meet for the first time an editor named Alatriste. The writer considered that such name had a good sound, it was evocative and poetic, and when he returned to Spain tried unsuccessfully to find where was the origin place of it. Nevertheless he discovered that there were some people in Spain named "Alatristain", an originally Basque name which probably could have been transformed once their owners moved to America.
Something similar could have happened with the name Magistrado, it could have been the evolution of some originally Spanish names such as Manjón, Majado, Megido… There is still a much more simpler possibility, as during the times of the Spanish control over the archipelago, the inhabitants of the Philippines were allowed to chose any Christian Spanish name to make easier their integration in our culture. In spite of not have been used as a family name in Spain, the word Magistrado is perfectly correct in Spanish, it could have been accepted as a family name without problems.
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