Santiago de Compostela

• Santiago, Compostela

Santiago de Compostela

1. A city in Galicia, Spain, a major Christian pilgrimage site.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Santiago de Compostela.

Santiago de Compostela

1. A city in A Coruña, Galicia. Allegedly, the cathedral was built over the resting place of St James the Great

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• “Santiago de Compostela” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.

Santiago from Sānctus Iācōbus (“Saint James”). Compostela, attested as Conpostella in 966, from Latin compositella, diminutive of compositus (“ordered, arranged”), meaning "the (well) composed little one" vel sim.^[1] A common incorrect etymology derives from the purported campus stellae or field of stars, leading to names such as campo de estrellas in Spanish.^[2]

Santiago de Compostela

1. A city in Galicia

   Synonyms: Santiago, Compostela

   • 1295, anonymous author, [Crónica Xeral e Crónica de Castela]; republished as Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, 1975, page 900:

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     [Et depoys moueo a rribeyra de Doyro aiusso, ffazendo grandes gerras a cristãos, ata que chegou a Ssantiago de Cõpostela et tomo[u] as cãpaas de Ssantiago et leuoas a Cordoua.]

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• Galician: Santiago de Compostela
• Portuguese: Santiago de Compostela

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

Santiago de Compostela

1. Santiago de Compostela (a city in A Coruña, Galicia)

   Synonym: Santiago

Borrowed from Galician.

Santiago de Compostela m

1. Santiago de Compostela (city)

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