The term ""Pinabácdao"" or ""Pinabakdaw"" is a Waray Sinamar-Lineyte dialect that means ""asked to stand"" in English Language or simply ""pinatayó"" in Filipino Language. But in the book "Atlas de Filipinas" by José María Algué, SJ - a Spanish-Roman Catholic priest and meteorologist in the observatory of Manila published in 1899 (In 1900 published in English: "Atlas of the Philippine Islands" by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey "now" "U.S. National Geodetic Survey"); Pinabacdao was cited as "Pinabágdao" and listed as a "pueblo" or town in the former island province of Samar.