PARDO SURNAME

Pardo, in Hebrew פרדו, is a very old Spanish surname 1 2 of Jewish origin 3 4 5 6 Sephardic 7 8 and from the tribe of Judah, 9 10 that arrived in Spain with the Romans (as these Jews were enslaved) in the 1st century C.E, 11 12 13 14 15 16 later in the Middle Ages they were known as wealthy families 17 18 19 20 descendants of the ancient Jewish nobility 21 22 23 24 and Jewish converts to Christianity 25 26 from which emerged rabbinic scholars, 27 28 29 doctors, 30 31 32 33 lenders 34 35 36 and merchants 37 38 39 who left lineages throughout the Iberian Peninsula and extended to the Mediterranean, 40 41 42 43 from their first settlement in Sagunto (Murviedro), Valencia 44 45 and whose first origin was in Israel during the Maccabean-Hasmonean period in 164 B.C.E. 46 The Feast of the Joy of Torah in the Livorno synagogue, Italy, 1850. Artist: Hart, Solomon Alexander. This surname derives from the Greek  παρδος    (Pardos) and Latin PARDVS (Pardus) 47 48   which means leopard, 49 and then