Dievoet (/ˈdvʊt/) is a place name from which the surnames Van Dievoet and Vandievoet are derived.

Surname

Coat of arms of the Van Dievoet family of Brussels.

As a surname, it is found mainly in Belgium as Van Dievoet or Vandievoet, and may refer to:

Members of the Van Dievoet family of Brussels (Vandive in Paris) (Divutius in Latin) such as:

Coat of arms of the family of Baron Émile van Dievoet.

Members of the family of Belgian politician Baron Émile van Dievoet such as:

  • Baron Émile van Dievoet (1886–1967), Belgian minister of Justice
  • Guido van Dievoet (nl), Belgian law historian
  • Walter van Dievoet (nl; fr), Belgian expert on goldsmithing ;

Members of the Vandievoet or Van Dievoet families, Brabantian families from the villages of Haren, Diegem, Evere, Schaerbeek, Meise, in Flemish Brabant such as:

  • Jules Vandievoet (fr) (1885–1947), Belgian painter
  • Jacques Vandievoet (fr) (1923–1993), Belgian poet
  • Hendrik Van Dievoet (nl; fr), burgomaster of Meise from 1891 to 1904.

Place name

Dievoet is a place located in Uccle (Belgium).[1]

Etymologies

There are two possible etymologies :

  1. Diet + voorde, place name of Germanic origin.
    • From Diet meaning people and voorde meaning ford. Dietvoorde thus meaning "public ford".
  2. Divo + ritum, place name of Celtic origin.
    • Divoritum meaning "sacred ford".

For more informations about the etymologies of the name, see Dievoort.

Variations

  • Dievoort, a related surname and place name

References

  1. Nomina Geographica Neerlandica, 1936, vol. 10, p. 169.
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