# Galiza
## English
### Etymology

From Galician Galiza.

### Proper noun

Galiza
* Alternative form of Galicia

## Asturian
### Proper noun

Galiza f
* Alternative form of Galicia

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* Galicia

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Galiza, from Early 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 origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaˈliθa/ [ɡɑˈli.θɐ]
* IPA: (standard) /ɡaˈliθa/ [ɡɑˈli.θɐ]
* IPA: (gheada) /ħaˈliθa/ [ħɑˈli.θɐ]
* IPA: (gheada and seseo) /ħaˈlisa/ [ħɑˈli.sɐ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iθa
* Rhymes: -iθa
* Rhymes: -isa
* Hyphenation: Ga‧li‧za

### Proper noun

Galiza f
* Galicia, Spain
** 1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, 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 GalizaHe 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, editor, 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 OrdonoThe 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

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “Galiza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Galiza”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “Galiza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* ↑ Moralejo, Juan J. (2008). Callaica nomina: estudios de onomástica gallega. A Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, pages 113–148. →ISBN.

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaˈli.d͡za/

### Proper noun

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

#### Descendants

* Galician: Galiza
* Portuguese: Galiza

## Old Norse
### 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)
    Synonym: Jakobsland

#### Declension
## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ɡaˈli.zɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ɡaˈli.zɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ɡaˈli.za/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɡɐˈli.zɐ/
* Hyphenation: Ga‧li‧za

### Proper noun

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

#### Related terms

* galego