The mastin Surname
mastin Name Meaning and History
French: partly an occupational name for a household servant, from
Old French mastin ‘watchdog’; ‘manservant’ (from Latin
mansuetudinus ‘domestic’). The Old French word had the further
sense of a bad-tempered dog, and was used as an adjective in the sense
of ‘bad’, ‘cruel’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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