Italian: from the medieval personal name Donato (Latin
Donatus, past participle of donare, frequentative of
dare ‘to give’). It was the name of a 4th-century Italian
bishop martyred in c. 350 under Julian the Apostate, as well as
various other early saints, and a 4th-century grammarian and
commentator on Virgil, widely respected in the Middle Ages as a figure
of great learning. See also Donat.
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