Santiago

English

Etymology

From Spanish Santiago (“Saint James”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sæntiˈɑːɡəʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /sɑntiˈɑɡoʊ/

Proper noun

Santiago

1. One of the following major cities and other places:
   1. Santiago de Chile, the capital city of Chile.
   2. A province of Chile.
   3. The central commune in Santiago Province, Chile.
   4. Santiago Metropolitan Region, an administrative region in Chile.
   5. Santiago de Cuba, the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba.
   6. Santiago de Cuba, a province of Cuba.
   7. Santiago de los Caballeros, the capital city of Santiago Province, Dominican Republic.
   8. A province of the Dominican Republic.
   9. An independent city in the Cayagan Valley region, Philippines.
   10. Santiago de Compostela, a city in Galicia, Spain.
   11. One of the ten islands of Cape Verde.
2. Santiago del Estero, a province of Argentina.
3. Santiago del Estero, the capital city of Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina.
4. A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
5. A municipality and town in Norte de Santander department, Colombia.
6. A municipality and town in Putumayo department, Colombia.
7. A district of Palmares canton, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica.
8. A district of Paraíso canton, Cartago Province, Costa Rica.
9. The capital city of Puriscal canton, San José Province, Costa Rica.
10. A district of Puriscal canton, San José Province, Costa Rica, containing the capital city of the same name.
11. A district of San Rafael canton, Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
12. A district of San Ramón canton, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica.
13. An island in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
14. A municipality of Nuevo León, Mexico.
15. A small town in Los Cabos Municipality, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
16. A river in Veracruz, in eastern Mexico.
17. A district of Veraguas Province, Panama.
18. A corregimiento, a seat in Santiago district, Veraguas Province, Panama.
19. Santiago de Veraguas, the capital city of Veraguas Province, Panama.
20. A city in Misiones department, Paraguay.
21. A district of Cusco Province, Peru.
22. A tributary of the Marañón River, Peru.
23. A municipality of Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
24. A municipality of Ilocos del Sur, Philippines.
25. A cape at the southwestern tip of island of Luzon, Philippines.
26. An island off the northern coast of the municipality of Bolinao, Pangasinan, Philippines.

Synonyms

• (Capital of Chile): Santiago de Chile

Related terms

• San Diego

Translations

city in Chile

• Arabic: سَانْتْيَاغُو‎ m (santyāḡū)
• Armenian: Սանտյագո (Santyago)
• Azerbaijani: Santyaqo (az)
• Catalan: Santiago (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖地亞哥 (zh), 圣地亚哥 (zh) (Shèngdìyàgē), 聖地牙哥 (zh), 圣地牙哥 (zh) (Shèngdìyágē)

• Danish: Santiago, Santiago de Chile
• Dutch: Santiago (nl)
• Finnish: Santiago (fi)
• Galician: Santiago (gl), Santiago de Chile (gl) m
• Greek: Σαντιάγο (el) (Santiágo)

• Hebrew: סַנְטְיָאגוֹ‎ (santiago)
• Irish: Saintiagó m
• Italian: Santiago f
• Japanese: サンティアゴ (Santiago)
• Korean: 산티아고 (Santiago)
• Lithuanian: Santjagas m
• Mapudungun: Santiaw
• Portuguese: Santiago (pt) f
• Russian: Сантья́го (ru) m (Santʹjágo)
• Spanish: Santiago (es) m, Santiago de Chile (es) m
• Turkish: Santiago

Anagrams

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Catalan

Proper noun

Santiago m

1. Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)
2. Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region (a province of Chile)
3. Santiago, Santiago de Compostela (a city in Galicia, Spain)
4. Santiago (one of the ten islands of Cape Verde)

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish Santiago.

Proper noun

Santiago

1. (biblical) James
2. a male given name from Spanish
3. a surname
4. Santiago (a municipality of Surigao del Sur, Philippines)
5. Santiago (a bay in the coast of the island of Pacijan, in the Camotes Islands, Cebu, Philippines)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Santiago.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Santiago n

1. Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)

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Galician

Santiago de Compostela

Santiago (Saint James) depicted as a knight. Codex Calixtinus, 12th century

Etymology

From Latin Sanctus Iācōbus (“Saint James”), the latter word deriving from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב‎ (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “heel-grabber”), from עָקֵב‎ (‘āqḗḇ, “heel of the foot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sanˈtjaɣʊ]

Proper noun

Santiago m

1. (biblical) James
2. A male given name, equivalent to English Jacob
3. A surname​.
4. Santiago, Santiago de Compostela (the capital city of Galicia, Spain)
5. Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)

Derived terms

• santiagués
• santiaguiño

Related terms

• Iago

References

• “Santiago” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “Santiago” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “Santiago” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “Santiago” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Japanese

Romanization

Santiago

1. Rōmaji transcription of サンティアゴ

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Santiago m

1. (biblical) James (name of two of the twelve apostles)
2. A male given name
3. A surname​.

Proper noun

Santiago f

1. Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)
2. A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
3. Santiago (one of the ten islands of Cape Verde)

Synonyms

• (Santiago de Chile): Santiago do Chile, Santiago de Chile

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Sanctus Iācōbus (“Saint James”), the latter word deriving from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב‎ (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “heel-grabber”), from עָקֵב‎ (‘āqḗḇ, “heel of the foot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sanˈtjaɡo/, [sãn̪ˈt̪jaɣo]

Proper noun

Santiago m

1. (biblical) James.
2. A male given name.
3. Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)
4. Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region (a province of Chile)
5. Santiago, Santiago de Compostela (a city in Galicia, Spain)
6. Santiago (one of the ten islands of Cape Verde)
7. The name of several cities in Chile, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Spain, and several other Spanish-speaking countries.

Derived terms

• Camino de Santiago
• Santiago de Chile
• Santiago de Compostela
• Santiago del Estero

 

Related terms

• Diego
• Iago
• Jacob
• Jacobo
• Jaime
• San Diego
• Yago

 

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish.

Proper noun

Santiago

1. (biblical) James
2. (uncommon) A male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English James
3. Any of several places in the Philippines named after the saint, e.g.:
   1. A city in Isabela, Philippines.
   2. A municipality of Ilocos Sur, Philippines.
   3. A municipality of Surigao del Sur, Philippines.
4. Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)

Santiago

1. A surname​.

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Santiago is the 4,121^st most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 3,283 individuals.