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“Santiago de Compostela” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Santiago from Sānctus Iācōbus(“Saint James”). Compostela, attested as Conpostella in 966, from Latincompositella, diminutive of composita(“ordered, arranged”), meaning "the (well) composed little one" vel sim.[1] A common incorrect etymology derives from the purported campusstellae or field of stars, leading to names such as campodeestrellas in Spanish.[2]
1295, anonymous author, ; 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.]
^ Silva, Ermelindo (2003), Historia da cidade de Santiago de Compostela. Santiago de compostela: USC, page 81. →ISBN.
^ Isidro García Tato (2011) “Historia y mito: Los mitos estelares en el Camino de Santiago”, in AGALI Journal (in Spanish)
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Santiago”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
