Query on the name "Martinez"

[A. Maberry]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Alice Faber wrote:
>
> Years ago, a friend who had studied Romance Linguistics told me that it's a
> Late Latin case ending (genitive plural???), and that the general class of
> names is a calque on Arabic names like Ibn X 'son of X'.
> --

Probably genitive singular. Latin gen. pl. usually ends in -(i)um.

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu