Fidalgo (, ), from
Galician and
Portuguese filho de algo— equivalent to nobleman, but sometimes literally translated into English as "son of somebody" or "son of some (important family)"—is a traditional title of
Portuguese nobility that refers to a member of the titled or untitled
nobility. A
fidalgo is comparable in some ways to the French (the word also implies nobility by birth or by charge) and to the Italian
nobile. The title was abolished after the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1910. It is also a family
surname.