# Inglaterra
## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inɡlaˈtera/ [iŋ.ɡlaˈt̪e.ra]
* Rhymes: -era
* Syllabification: In‧gla‧te‧rra

### Proper noun

Inglaterra f
* England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

## Central Nahuatl
### Proper noun

Inglaterra
* England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

## Galician
### Proper noun

Inglaterra f
* England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

#### Related terms

* inglés

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* Anglaterra, Englaterra, Engraterra, Ingraterra, Jnglaterra

### Etymology

From Medieval Latin Angliterra, a calque of Middle English Engelond, from Old English Engla land.

### Noun

Inglaterra f
* England (a medieval kingdom in Northern Europe; capital: Londres)
** a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 85 (facsimile):Onde direi / un miragre que en engla terra / demoſtrou ſanta maria aque / nunca erra / poꝛ conuerter un / iudeu que prenderan ladꝛões / a que chagas grñdes deran e pois / toꝛçillões.Where, shall I say, a miracle that, in England, demonstrated [the power of] Holy Mary, who ne'er errs, for converting a Jew that had imprisoned thieves that he greatly wounded and then wrenched.
** a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Xeral Historia [General Story], translation of General Estoria (in Old Spanish); republished as Ramón Martínez López, editor, General Estoria: versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, 1963, page 86:Et de Jafet et dos seus lynages [sayrõ] outrosy os moytos rreys que rreynarõ [em] Rroma, et em España, et em Alamanya, et em França, et em [Jnglaterra], et ẽnas outras yslas de todaslas partidas de Europa et em cabo et em todo omũdo.And out of Japheth and his lineages [came] the many other kings who reigned [in] Rome and in Spain, Germany, France, in [England] and in other islands from all over Europe, in Cape, and in the entire world.

#### Descendants

* Galician: Inglaterra
* Portuguese: Inglaterra

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “@ng@aterra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Inglaterra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Inglaterra, from Medieval Latin Angliterra, a calque of Middle English Engelond, from Old English Engla land.
Cognate with Galician and Spanish Inglaterra.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ʁɐ/ [ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.hɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ʁɐ/ [ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.hɐ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ʁɐ/ [ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.χɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ʁa/ [ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ha]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.ɡlɐˈtɛ.ʁɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɛʁɐ
* Hyphenation: In‧gla‧ter‧ra

### Proper noun

Inglaterra f
* England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom; capital and largest city: Londres)
* (proscribed, dated or informal) Great Britain (a large island of the United Kingdom in Northern Europe)
* (proscribed, dated or informal) United Kingdom (a kingdom and country in Northern Europe)
    Synonym: Reino Unido

#### Usage notes

* Inglaterra belongs to a small group of place names (along with Espanha, França and Itália) which can be used without the definite article when governed by a preposition: Viveu muito tempo em Inglaterra.

#### Related terms

* inglês

## Spanish
### Etymology

Calque of English England. Cognate with Medieval Latin Angliterra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inɡlaˈtera/ [ĩŋ.ɡlaˈt̪e.ra]
* Rhymes: -era
* Syllabification: In‧gla‧te‧rra

### Proper noun

Inglaterra f
* England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

#### Related terms

* inglés
* Nueva Inglaterra

#### Descendants

* → Classical Nahuatl: Inglatera
* → Tagalog: Inglatera

### See also

* Gran Bretaña
* Reino Unido

### Further reading

* “Inglaterra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10