hagiotoponym

English

Noun

hagiotoponym (plural hagiotoponyms)

(rare) The name of a place that is dedicated to a particular saint
- 2014, Linda Safran, The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy, page 32:
  From the fourteenth century onward, the successively smaller administrative subdivisions (pictagia, neighborhoods, contained vicinia) of cities like Lecce and Nardò were uniformly hagiotoponyms named after neighborhood churches.

Translations

Translations

Catalan: hagiotopònim (ca) m
Italian: agiotoponimo (it) m
Portuguese: hagiotopónimo m (Portugal), hagiotopônimo m (Brazil)

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