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Los Sobrenombres
For example, last night we met an Italian woman who lives in Mallorca and comes to Buenos Aires occasionally (what a perfect person to live in a country composed primarily of Spanish speaking Italian immigrants). While her name is Patricia, here "sobrenombre" or nickname is Pato (meaning duck). We were just happy enough to glean that shortening and changing Patricia to Pato was a nickname that we didn't dare ask why she'd been given the masculine form instead of the feminine Pata.