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Asunción

/asunˈθjon/

proper noun/asunˈθjon/

a female given name from Latin; any of a number of places, including Asunción (the capital city of Paraguay)

Related: asunceno, asunceño

From asunción (“assumption (of Mary to heaven)”), shortened from María (de la) Asunción, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary.