 The name "Paderne" derives from the lower Latin word "Paterni", which means "estate of Paterno".Paderne, or as it was formerly called, Paderna, was an old toponymy, whose origins were in the Lusitanian culture, signifying "rough, tough, hard and intractable".The Veiga archaeological crews discovered underground galleries in the settlement that they attributed to prehistoric peoples, although local storytellers indicated that these caverns were used by Moorish peoples as barns or granaries.