# Santiago
## English
### Etymology

From Spanish Santiago, ellision of earlier Sant'Iago and Sant Iago, from Latin Sanctus Iācōbus (“Saint James or holy James”), the latter word deriving from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel”) and the Biblical account of the patriarch Jacob's birth in Genesis 25:26. Piecewise doublet of Saint James.
The Guan Yu sense among Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines is due to a syncretic association of the deified Chinese general with St. James, who are both known for their assertiveness and heroism, which non-Chinese and people in the Philippines like Jose Rizal during the 19th century first associated with and/or surmised the Chinese folk deities venerated by Chinese Filipinos on Chinese altars and prints with popular Christian or Muslim figures.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /sæntiˈɑːɡəʊ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /sɑntiˈɑɡoʊ/

### Proper noun

Santiago
* Places in Argentina:
** Short for Santiago del Estero, a city in Argentina.
** Short for Santiago del Estero, a province of Argentina, surrounding the city.
* A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
* Places in Chile:
** The capital city of Chile.
*** 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 34:On 12 February 1541 Valdivia founded the city of Santiago, but within six months it was destroyed by Araucanian Indians, one of the most bellicose peoples encountered by the Spaniards; […]
** A commune of Santiago, Chile, in the center of the city.
** A province of Chile, surrounding the city.
** A metropolitan region in Chile, surrounding the province.
** A former department of Chile.
* Places in Cuba:
** A city in Cuba.
** A province of Cuba, surrounding the city.
* Places in the Dominican Republic:
** A city in the Dominican Republic.
** A province of the Dominican Republic, surrounding the city.
* An island in Cape Verde.
* Places in Colombia:
** A municipality and town in the Norte de Santander department, Colombia.
** A municipality and town in the Putumayo department, Colombia.
* Places in Costa Rica:
** A district of Palmares canton, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica.
** A district of Paraíso canton, Cartago Province, Costa Rica.
** The capital city of Puriscal canton, San José Province, Costa Rica.
** A district of Puriscal canton, San José Province, Costa Rica, surrounding the city.
** A district of San Rafael canton, Heredia Province, Costa Rica.
** A district of San Ramón canton, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica.
* An island in Galapagos, Ecuador.
* Places in Mexico:
** A municipality of Nuevo León, Mexico.
** A small town in Los Cabos Municipality, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
** A river in Veracruz, in eastern Mexico.
* Places in Panama:
** The capital city of Veraguas Province, Panama.
** A district of Veraguas Province, Panama.
** A corregimiento, the seat of Santiago district, Veraguas Province, Panama.
* A city in the Misiones department, Paraguay.
* Places in Peru:
** A district of Cusco Province, Peru.
** A tributary of the Marañón River, Peru.
* Places in the Philippines:
** A city in the Philippines.
** A municipality of Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
** A municipality of Ilocos Sur, Philippines.
** A cape at the southwestern tip of island of Luzon, Philippines.
** An island off the northern coast of the municipality of Bolinao, Pangasinan, Philippines.
* Synonym of Santiago de Compostela, a city in Galicia, Spain, a major Christian pilgrimage site.
* Places in the United States:
** A township and unincorporated community therein, in Sherburne County, Minnesota, United States.
** An unincorporated community in North Fayette Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
** An unincorporated community in Taylor County, West Virginia, United States.
* (Philippines, Chinese Filipino, Chinese folk religion, Taoism) Synonym of Guan Yu, a famous 2nd-century Chinese warrior subsequently worshipped as a god of war.

#### Synonyms

* (Chilean capital): Santiago de Chile
* (Cuban city and province): Santiago de Cuba
* (Dominican city): Santiago de los Caballeros
* (Panamian city): Santiago de Veraguas
* (Ecuadorian island): Duke of York's Island, James, Salvador, San Marcos, San Salvador

#### Derived terms

* Santiago de la Frontera
* Santiago de María
* Santiago Juxtlahuaca
* Santiago Nonualco
* Santiago Texacuangos

#### Related terms

* San Diego

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Chu, Richard T. (2012) Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity, and Culture, 1860s-1930s‎, page 191

### Anagrams

* Gastonia

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [sən.tiˈa.ɣu]
* IPA: (Balearic) [sən.tiˈa.ɣo]
* IPA: (Valencia) [san.tiˈa.ɣo]

### Proper noun

Santiago m
* Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)
* Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region (a province of Chile)
* Santiago, Santiago de Compostela (a city in Galicia, Spain)
* Santiago (one of the ten islands of Cape Verde)

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From Spanish Santiago.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: San‧ti‧a‧go
* IPA: /santiˈaɡo/ [s̪ɐn̪ˈt̪ja.ɡo]

### Proper noun

Santiago
* (biblical) James
* a male given name from Spanish
* a surname from Spanish
* Santiago (a municipality of Surigao del Sur, Philippines)
* Santiago (a bay in the coast of the island of Pacijan, in the Camotes Islands, Cebu, Philippines)

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Santiago n
* Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)

## Galician
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Santiago, from Latin Sānctus Iācōbus (“Saint James”).
Cognate with Fala, Portuguese, and Spanish Santiago.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sanˈtjaɡo/ [s̺an̪ˈt̪jɑ.ɣ̞ʊ]
* IPA: (standard) /sanˈtjaɡo/ [s̺an̪ˈt̪jɑ.ɣ̞ʊ]
* IPA: (gheada) /sanˈtjaħo/ [s̺an̪ˈt̪jɑ.ħʊ]
* Rhymes: -aɡo
* Rhymes: -aɡo
* Rhymes: -aħo
* Hyphenation: San‧tia‧go

### Proper noun

Santiago m
* (biblical) James
* a male given name, equivalent to English Jacob or James
* a surname
* Santiago, Santiago de Compostela (the capital city of Galicia, Spain)
* Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)

#### Derived terms

* santiagués
* santiaguiño

#### Related terms

* Iago
* Xacobe

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “Santiago”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “Santiago” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

## Japanese
### Romanization

Santiago
* Rōmaji transcription of サンティアゴ

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* Santyago, Sãtiago, Sãtyago, Ssantiago

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin Sānctus Iācōbus (“Saint James”).
Cognate with Old Spanish Santiago.

### Proper noun

Santiago m
* (biblical) James (one of two Apostles)
* Clipping of Santiago de Compostela.

#### Related terms

* Jacob

#### Descendants

* Fala: Santiago
* Galician: Santiago
* Portuguese: Santiago

### References

* Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “Santiago¹”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
* Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “Santiago²”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “Santiago”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Santiago”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sanˈtja.ɡɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɡɔ
* Syllabification: San‧tia‧go

### Proper noun

Santiago n (indeclinable)
* Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)

### References

* Santiago in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Santiago, from Latin Sānctus Iācōbus (“Saint James”). Doublet of São Tiago.
Cognate with Fala, Galician, and Spanish Santiago.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /sɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈa.ɡu/ [sɐ̃.t͡ʃɪˈa.ɡu], (faster pronunciation) /sɐ̃ˈt͡ʃja.ɡu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /sɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈa.ɡu/ [sɐ̃.t͡ʃɪˈa.ɡu], (faster pronunciation) /sɐ̃ˈt͡ʃja.ɡu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /sɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈa.ɡo/ [sɐ̃.t͡ʃɪˈa.ɡo], (faster pronunciation) /sɐ̃ˈt͡ʃja.ɡo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /sɐ̃ˈtja.ɡu/ [sɐ̃ˈtja.ɣu]
* Rhymes: -aɡu
* Hyphenation: San‧ti‧a‧go

### Proper noun

Santiago m
* (biblical) James (name of two of the twelve apostles)
* a male given name
* a surname

### Proper noun

Santiago
* Santiago (one of the ten islands of Cape Verde)
* A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
* (informal) Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)
    Synonyms: Santiago do Chile, Santiago de Chile
* (informal) Santiago, Santiago de Compostela (a city in Galicia, Spain)
    Synonym: Santiago de Compostela

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsancijaɡɔ]

### Proper noun

Santiago n
* Santiago (the capital of Chile)

### References

* “Santiago”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin Sanctus Iācōbus (“Saint James”), the latter word deriving from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel of the foot”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sanˈtjaɡo/ [sãn̪ˈt̪ja.ɣ̞o]
* Audio (Peru):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɡo
* Syllabification: San‧tia‧go

### Proper noun

Santiago m
* (biblical) James
* a male given name, equivalent to English James
* Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)
* A region of Chile
* Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region (a province of Chile)
* (historical) A department of Chile
* (historical) A province of Chile until 1976.
* Santiago, Santiago de Compostela (a city in Galicia, Spain)
* Santiago (one of the ten islands of Cape Verde)
* Santiago (a province of the Dominican Republic; capital: Santiago)
* The name of several cities in Chile, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Spain, and several other Spanish-speaking countries

#### Derived terms

* Camino de Santiago
* cardenal de Santiago
* cruz de Santiago
* dar un Santiago
* Santi
* Santiago de Chile
* Santiago de Compostela
* Santiago de los Caballeros
* Santiago del Estero
* santiaguero
* santiagués
* santiaguino
* voto de Santiago

#### Related terms

* Diego
* Iago
* Jacob
* Jacobo
* Jaime
* San Diego
* Yago

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Santiago (“St. James”). The Guan Yu sense among Chinese Filipinos is due to a syncretic association of the said deified Chinese general with St. James, who are both known for their assertiveness and heroism, which non-Chinese and people like Jose Rizal during the 19th century first associated with and/or surmised the Chinese folk deities venerated by Chinese Filipinos on Chinese altars and prints with popular Christian or Muslim figures.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /santiˈaɡo/ [sɐn̪ˈt͡ʃaː.ɣo]
** IPA: (no yod coalescence) /santiˈaɡo/ [sɐn̪ˈt̪jaː.ɣo]
* Rhymes: -aɡo
* Syllabification: San‧ti‧a‧go

### Proper noun

Santiago (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜆᜒᜌᜄᜓ)
* (biblical) Saint James
    Synonym: San Diego
* (biblical) James (book of the New Testament)
* a male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English James
* a common surname from Spanish
* Several places in the Philippines named after St. James:
** Santiago (a city in Isabela, Philippines)
** Santiago (a municipality of Ilocos Sur, Philippines)
** Santiago (a municipality of Surigao del Sur, Philippines)
** Santiago (an island in Pangasinan, Philippines)
** Santiago (a municipality of Agusan del Norte, Philippines)
* Santiago, Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)
* (Chinese Filipino, Chinese folk religion, Taoism) Guan Yu (160-220 AD)

### References

* ↑ Chu, Richard T. (2012) Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity, and Culture, 1860s-1930s‎, page 191