hagiotoponym

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hagiotoponym (plural hagiotoponyms)

  1. (rare) The name of a place that is dedicated to a particular saint
    • 2014, Linda Safran, The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy, page 32:
      From the fourteenth century onward, the successively smaller administrative subdivisions (pictagia, neighborhoods, contained vicinia) of cities like Lecce and Nardò were uniformly hagiotoponyms named after neighborhood churches.

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