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Ledesma

/leˈdesma/

proper noun/leˈdesma/

a town and municipality, a in Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain; a surname derived from the town in Salamanca, Spain

Inherited from Latin Bletisama, from a local Celtic language. A superlative in *-isamos from either Proto-Celtic *ɸletisamā (“the broadest one”), from *ɸletos (“breadth”); or from Proto-Celtic *ɸleitisamā (“the greyest one”), from *ɸleitos (“grey”).