Tiago

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Thiago

Etymology

New Testament form of Jacó. From Latin Sanctus (“holy, saint”) + Iacobus (“James”), from Ancient Greek Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ). The regular outcome of Latin word-initial /iV-/ in Portuguese is /d͡ʒV-/; Iacobus must have been borrowed during the Middle Ages. Later, it was contracted to Santiago when referring to the saint, and ultimately suffered juncture reinterpretation (“São Tiago”) in analogy to São Mateus, São Marcos, etc.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈa.ɡu/ [t͡ʃɪˈa.ɡu], (faster pronunciation) /ˈt͡ʃja.ɡu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈa.ɡu/ [t͡ʃɪˈa.ɡu], (faster pronunciation) /ˈt͡ʃja.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈa.ɡo/ [t͡ʃɪˈa.ɡo], (faster pronunciation) /ˈt͡ʃja.ɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtja.ɡu/ [ˈtja.ɣu]

• (Northeastern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tiˈaɡu/
• (Uruguay) IPA^(key): /tʃiˈaɡo/
• Rhymes: -aɡu
• Hyphenation: Ti‧a‧go

Proper noun

Tiago m (plural Tiagos)

1. (biblical) the twentieth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the general epistle of James
   • 1959, João Ferreira de Almeida, Almeida Revista e Atualizada, Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil, Tiago 1:6:

     Tiago, servo de Deus e do Senhor Jesus Cristo, às doze tribos da Dispersão, saúde.

     James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting.

2. one of two Apostles, James the Greater and James the Less, often identified with James, brother of Jesus
3. a male given name, equivalent to English James