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Jacinto is a Spanish and Portuguese name meaning Hyacinth, which can refer to Saint Hyacinth, a Roman martyr ( Hyacinth and Protus), or the Hyacinth flower itself.
A common English nickname for "Jacinto" is " Jack". Jacinto has only a few equivalents in other languages such as the Polish "Jacek" and "Jacenty", the Italian "Giacinto" and the Hungarian "Jácint".
Usage examples of "jacinto".
According to the briefing, Texas air defense will have been alerted by then, and we can expect light to medium flak as we approach Baytown on the north side of Jacinto Bay, where Galveston narrows into the Houston Ship Channel maze.
Jacinto Day had been extremely light, not a person from Las Palomas being present, while the tournament for that year had been abandoned.
Instead, Seguin found himself avenging the deaths of those brothers at San Jacinto.
For a stretch of nearly twenty kilometers, from Galveston Bay almost to the San Jacinto Monument, where it makes its looping swing to the west and south, the ship channel was a huge, angry black scar.
Above his head, the kinotrope wound slowly down, its flickering domino-tricks whirring to a stop, leaving San Jacinto frozen in mid-victory.
Plus an up-rated ID-card - find he wouldn't say 'No' to one of those units in that fancy tower he'd seen at San Jacinto Deep.
He knew memory could be elusive and yet as solid as the San Jacinto Mountains rising out of the desert.
Mexico had proclaimed a blockade of Texas ports, and although the Mexican army was busy with a revolt in the Yucatan, the long-expected follow-up invasion of Texas after Sam Houston's decisive triumph over Santa Ana at San Jacinto was soon approaching.
Ben drove her out to the San Jacinto monument, a grandiose 1930s obelisk topped by a Texas star, celebrating the victory of General Sam Houston over the Mexicans.