Inglaterra

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inɡlaˈtera/ [iŋ.ɡlaˈt̪e.ra]
• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: In‧gla‧te‧rra

Proper noun

Inglaterra f

1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Inglaterra

1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

Galician

Proper noun

Inglaterra f

1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

Related terms

• inglés

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Anglaterra, Englaterra, Engraterra, Ingraterra, Jnglaterra

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Angliterra, Calque of Middle English Engelond.

Noun

Inglaterra f

1. England (a medieval kingdom in Northern Europe; capital: Londres)
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 85 (facsimile):

     Onde direi / un miragre que en engla terra / demoſtrou ſanta maria aque / nunca erra / poꝛ conuerter un / iudeu que prenderan ladꝛões / a que chagas grñdes deran e pois / toꝛçillões.

     Where, shall I say, a miracle that, in England, demonstrated [the power of] Holy Mary, who ne'er errs, for converting a Jew that had imprisoned thieves that he greatly wounded and then wrenched.

   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Xeral Historia [General Story], translation of General Estoria (in Old Spanish); republished as Ramón Martínez López, editor, General Estoria: versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, 1963, page 86:

     Et de Jafet et dos seus lynages [sayrõ] outrosy os moytos rreys que rreynarõ [em] Rroma, et em España, et em Alamanya, et em França, et em [Jnglaterra], et ẽnas outras yslas de todaslas partidas de Europa et em cabo et em todo omũdo.

     And out of Japheth and his lineages [came] the many other kings who reigned [in] Rome and in Spain, Germany, France, in [England] and in other islands from all over Europe, in Cape, and in the entire world.

Descendants

• Galician: Inglaterra
• Portuguese: Inglaterra

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “@ng@aterra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “Inglaterra”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

bandeira da Inglaterra

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese Ingraterra, Englaterra, Engraterra. Cognate with Galician and Spanish Inglaterra.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ʁɐ/ [ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.hɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ʁɐ/ [ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.hɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ʁɐ/ [ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.χɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ʁa/ [ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ha]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.ɡlɐˈtɛ.ʁɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɛʁɐ
• Hyphenation: In‧gla‧ter‧ra

Proper noun

Inglaterra f

1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom; capital and largest city: Londres)
2. (proscribed, dated or informal) Great Britain (a large island of the United Kingdom in Northern Europe)
3. (proscribed, dated or informal) United Kingdom (a kingdom and country in Northern Europe)

   Synonym: Reino Unido

Usage notes

Inglaterra belongs to a small group of place names (along with Espanha, França and Itália) which can be used without the definite article when governed by a preposition: Viveu muito tempo em Inglaterra.

Related terms

• inglês

Spanish

Etymology

Calque of English England. Cognate with Medieval Latin Angliterra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inɡlaˈtera/ [ĩŋ.ɡlaˈt̪e.ra]
• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: In‧gla‧te‧rra

Proper noun

Inglaterra f

1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
   • 2018 April 20, EL NACIONAL WEB, “Cómo se curó el paciente con el peor caso de supergonorrea del mundo”, in El Nacional‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 March 2019:

     El británico al que le detectaron el “peor caso” de supergonorrea en el mundo, se ha curado, según informaron las autoridades sanitarias de Inglaterra.

     The British man who was found to have the "worst case" of supergonorrhea in the world has been cured, according to health authorities in England.

Related terms

• inglés
• Nueva Inglaterra

Descendants

• → Classical Nahuatl: Inglatera
• → Tagalog: Inglatera

See also

• Gran Bretaña
• Reino Unido

Further reading

• “Inglaterra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025