Talk:Diego

message: * Can anyone provide a source that can be verified regarding the proper origin of the name?  Specifically, academic research?  If you can, please list.  Thanks! Elhombre72 17:22, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Origin 

message: Quotations from old texts are not sufficient references. (BTW, they must be translated in English) References which discuss etymology are required. Otherwise it is original research. Moreover, Standard references to quoted pieces must be given, according to wikipedia style. `'Míkka 17:10, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreferenced etymology section

message: There's no mention of the name Diego being used as slang, or term of abuse of Spanish/Portuguese/Mexican people...In the same way Tommy=English, Jock=Scots or Fritz=German...Hopefully somebody will add it soon...--Madkaffir 16:22, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diego 

message: Diego is a Spanish male name derived from James which in turn is derived from the Hebrew Yaʻăqōbh (Jacob)
"Diego" is derived from the English name "James"?  I doubt that.  It is derived from the Spanish equivalent. 72.75.86.126 (talk) 09:26, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  James 

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message: It appears that this article has been pretty much blanked, and what was left turned on its head, in November 2020.
Here is the last version before this happened
The reason for this is apparently the single source from 2009, where apparently somebody argued that Diego is from a name of unknown origin, "Didacus".
The mainstream opinion is, of course, that Didacus is just the latinization of Diego, and Diego is perfectly correctly analysed as from Sant-Yago > San-Tiago.
Now it seems that Didacus is recorded in the 8th century, which, if correct, does pose a problem for the interpretation of Didacus as a mere latinization of Diego, as the reanalysis Sant-Yago > San-Tiago would at the earliest have taken place around 1100 or so.
If this is the case, just lay out the evidence, and give such scholarly opinions as you can find, but don't blank the entire page because you found one recent dissenting opinion. 
--dab (𒁳) 07:09, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It isn't just one opinion, but Lidia Becker is the one opinion you need. Diego comes from Didaco/-us. There is no question. It has nothing to do with Santiago. I did not simply stumble on a recent dissenting opinion, I stumbled on this page and was surprised to see it peddling the Santiago nonsense. So I checked the source I knew. Here is Becker's footnote, the only place she addresses the Santiago thing:Bemerkenswert ist eine vermutlich alte Tradition, die Varianten des Namens Jakobus (→Iacobus) und Diego gleichstellt.  Die Übersetzung von fremdsprachigen Äquivalenten zu Jakobus durch Diego hat im Sp. und Port. Fuß gefasst (VasconcellosAntrPort 88). Sogar in der Ausgabe der Enzyklopädie Espasa-Calpe aus dem Jahr 1920 erscheinen z. B. die it. Heiligen Jàcopo da Varagine (1226-1298) und Jàcopo Bianconi (1220-1301) jeweils als Diego de Vorágine und Diego Bianconi. Der hl. Jakob von Ulm / Jakob Griesinger / Alemannus (1407-1491) wird Diego Alemán / de Ulma genannt (Espasa-Calpe 18.1,989994). Leider scheint die von Malkiel 1975a,188-9,A.25 als “extraña pareja” bezeichnete Entsprechung Diego =Jaime < Jakobus immer noch Herausgeber einiger populärer Namenbücher bei ihren etymologischen Versuchen zu reizen.Becker includes a long list of instances of Didacus/Didaco/Didago/Didagus before the 12th century. She cites a Diacus from as early as 920. Kremer touches on Diego/Didacus (and mentions the same Diacus). There is a long list of pre-12th-century Didaci in Antroponimia medieval galega (ss. VIII–XII). The Dictionary of American Family Names calls the Santiago connection a folk etymology. Is there any scholarship more recent than the 19th century that would support Santiago→Diego? Srnec (talk) 00:35, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

text: Yes, I consulted Becker, and I see that you were right. I have also tried to fix the wiktionary entries which insisted on  Diego=Jacob. --dab (𒁳) 17:55, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: revert to October 2020?

message: The following statements seem like OR to me:
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We have lots of written records. There really isn't any doubt that Diego has nothing to do with Santiago. Srnec (talk) 00:12, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:OR]]