Santiago de Compostela

English

Proper noun

Santiago de Compostela

  1. A historic holy city in Galicia, Spain.

Translations

Galician
Santiago as a white knight in the 12th century Codex Callistinus

Etymology

Santiago from Latin Sanctus Iacobus, "Saint James". Compostela, attested as Conpostella in 966, from Latin compositella, diminutive of compositus (“ordered, arranged”), meaning "the (well) composed little one" vel sim.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sanˈtjaɣo̝ðekomposˈtɛla̝̝/

Proper noun

Santiago de Compostela

  1. A city in A Coruña, Galicia.

References
  • “santiago” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  1. Silva, Ermelindo (2003), Historia da cidade de Santiago de Compostela. Santiago de compostela: USC, page 81. →ISBN.

Spanish

Etymology

From Galician.

Proper noun

Santiago de Compostela m

  1. Santiago de Compostela (city)

Derived terms

See also
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