Many of these words entered the language during the late antiquity, either as words introduced into Vulgar Latin elsewhere, or as words brought along by the Suebi who settled in Gallaecia[1] (Northern Portugal and Galicia) in the 5th century, and also by the Visigoths[2] who annexed the Suebic Kingdom in 585.
Other words were incorporated to Portuguese during the Middle Ages, mostly proceeding from French and Occitan languages, as both cultures had a massive impact in Portuguese during the 12th and 13th centuries.
Many of these words are shared with the Galician language,[3] with minor spelling or phonetic differences.
Ancient Roman-derived names are the most numerous in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking countries.
Together with Germanic-derived names they constitute the majority of those (and similarly to most European/Western countries inherited also a number of ancient Greek and Hebrew names) today: