Galiza

English

Etymology

From Galician Galiza.

Proper noun

Galiza

Alternative form of Galicia

Asturian

Proper noun

Galiza f

Alternative form of Galicia

Galician

A satellite view of Galiza and nearby lands

Alternative forms

Galicia

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, i.e. Medieval Galician, Galiza; from Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Classical Latin Gallaecia, older Callaecia; from Callaecī, a local tribe whose name was applied by the Romans to all other tribes dwelling north of the Douro, in western Hispania. From Proto-Celtic *kallī- (“wood”) or from a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-ní-s (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-; + a relational suffix *-aecus, of Lusitanian or Hispano-Celtic origin.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡaˈliθɐ/, /ɡaˈlisɐ/
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Proper noun

Galiza f

Galicia, Spain
- 1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C. Page 70:
  vio hũu camino d'estrelas que se começaua sobre lo mar de Frisa et ya por ontre Alamana et Ytalia et por ontre França et Aquita[n]ia et ya dereytamente por meogo da Gascona et por Nauara et por Espana, et ya ferir en Galiza
  He saw a way in the stars, starting over the sea of Friesland and then going in between Germany and Italy, and in between France and Aquitaine, and then right through the middle of Gascony and Navarre and Spain, and it ended in Galicia
the ancient Kingdom of Galicia
- 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 174:
  os condes de Galiza, poys que nõ poderõ sofrer o mal que el rey dõ Rramiro lles fazia, alçarõ rey en Sanctiago a dõ Bermudo, fillo del rey dõ Ordono
  The counts of Galicia, as they could not endure the pain that king Ramiro was inflicting on them, crowned Bermudo —the son of king Ordoño— as king in Santiago

References

“Galiza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“Galiza” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“Galiza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Moralejo, Juan J. (2008). Callaica nomina: estudios de onomástica gallega. A Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, pages 113–148. →ISBN.

Old Norse

Galiza í Spáni.

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Classical Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (“a Celtic tribe in the region”).

Noun

Galiza f (genitive Galizu)

Galicia (an autonomous community of Spain)

Declension

Declension of Galiza (weak ōn-stem, indefinite singular only)

feminine	singular
feminine	indefinite
nominative	Galiza
accusative	Galizu
dative	Galizu
genitive	Galizu

Synonyms

Jakobsland

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (“a tribe in the region”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡa.ˈli.d͡za/

Proper noun

Galiza

(Kingdom of) Galicia.
- 1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Caldeirom, B 1623: Os d'Aragom, que soen donear (facsimile)
  q(ua)ndeu vin de galiza
  when I came from Galicia

Descendants

Galician: Galiza
Portuguese: Galiza

Portuguese

Galiza

Etymology

From Old Portuguese Galiza, from Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (“a tribe in the region”). Doublet of Galícia and Galécia.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈli.zɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈli.za/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɐˈli.zɐ/

Hyphenation: Ga‧li‧za

Proper noun

Galiza f

Galicia (an autonomous community of Spain)
Synonym: (Brazil) Galícia

Related terms

galego

[1] Moralejo, Juan J. (2008). Callaica nomina: estudios de onomástica gallega. A Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, pages 113–148. →ISBN.