camiño

See also: camino and caminó

Galician

Camiño de Santiago ("Way of Saint James"), Gontán, Galicia

Camiño de Santiago ("Way of Saint James"), Santiago de Compostela, Galicia

Alternative forms

• caminho (Reintegrationist)

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese camỹo, caminno, from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin cammīnus; probably from Gaulish, although the earliest documentation of the word is from the 7th century, in Hispania. From Proto-Celtic *kanxsman-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp”). Cognate with Welsh camm, Irish céim, Celtiberian [Term?] (kamanom). Compare Portuguese caminho.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [kaˈmĩɲʊ]

Noun

camiño m (plural camiños)

1. path, road
   • 1348, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 308:

     It. mando a as mallatarias do camio frances. et do camio de Padron .XXXX. sls. a cada hua

     Item, I bequeath to the leproseries on the French road and on the road to Padrón, 40 solidi to each one

2. route, way

   De camiño a casa pararei no forno. ― On my way home I'll stop by the bakery.

Derived terms

• camiñante
• Camiño
• Camiño Grande
• Camiño Novo
• camiño real
• Camiño Real
• Casacamiño
• Casa Camiño
• Catro Camiños
• Sete Camiños
• Sucamiño

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “camiño”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “camiño”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “camiño”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “camiño”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “camiño”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN