Santiago de Compostela

English

Proper noun

Santiago de Compostela

1. A historic holy city in Galicia, Spain.

Translations

city

• French: Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle (fr)
• Galician: Santiago de Compostela (gl) m
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• German: Santiago de Compostela (de) n
• Spanish: Santiago de Compostela (es) m

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Galician

Santiago as a white knight in the 12th century Codex Callistinus

Etymology

Santiago from Latin Sanctus Iacobus, "Saint James". Compostela, attested as Conpostella in 966, from Latin compositella, diminutive of compositus (“ordered, arranged”), meaning "the (well) composed little one" vel sim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sanˈtjaɣo̝ðekomposˈtɛla̝̝/

Proper noun

Santiago de Compostela

1. A city in A Coruña, Galicia.

Related terms

• Compostela

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “santiago”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

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Spanish

Etymology

From Galician.

Proper noun

Santiago de Compostela m

1. Santiago de Compostela (city)

Derived terms

• compostelano
• santiagués

See also

• jacobeo
• picheleiro