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Santiago.

James

8 characters3 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

name/sanˈtjaɡo/[sãn̪ˈt̪ja.ɣ̞o]

  1. James

    masculine

  2. a male given name, equivalent to English James

    masculine

  3. Santiago (the capital city of Chile; official name: Santiago de Chile)

    masculine

  4. a region of Chile

    masculine

  5. Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region (a province of Chile)

    masculine

  6. a department of Chile

    historical · masculine

  7. a province of Chile until 1976.

    historical · masculine

  8. Santiago, Santiago de Compostela (a city in Galicia, Spain)

    masculine

  9. Santiago (one of the ten islands of Cape Verde)

    masculine

  10. Santiago (a province of the Dominican Republic; capital: Santiago)

    masculine

  11. The name of several cities in Chile, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Spain, and several other Spanish-speaking countries

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *sh₂nékti Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Italic *-iō Proto-Italic *sankiō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Proto-Italic *sanktos Latin sānctus Biblical Hebrew עָקַב Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ)bor. Ancient Greek Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb) Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos)bor. Latin Iācōbus Latin Sānctus Iācōbus Spanish Santiago Inherited from Latin Sānctus Iācōbus (“Saint James”), the latter word deriving from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ, literally “May He Heel”), from the third-person singular masculine imperfective form of the Semitic verb "to heel" (with various meanings), in turn from עָקֵב (ʿāqēḇ, “heel of the foot”), historically mediated by the folk etymology found in Biblical account of the patriarch Jacob's birth in Genesis 25:26.

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