Inglaterra

Asturian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inɡlaˈtera/ [iŋ.ɡlaˈt̪e.ra]
  • Rhymes: -era
  • Syllabification: In‧gla‧te‧rra

Proper noun

Inglaterra f

  1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Inglaterra

  1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

Galician

Proper noun

Inglaterra f

  1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

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

    1. 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

    Portuguese

    Etymology

    From Old Galician-Portuguese Ingraterra, Englaterra, Engraterra. Cognate with Galician and Spanish Inglaterra.

    Pronunciation

     
    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ʁɐ/ [ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.hɐ]
      • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ʁɐ/ [ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.χɐ]
      • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ʁa/ [ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ha]
    • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.ɡlɐˈtɛ.ʁɐ/

    • Rhymes: -ɛʁɐ
    • Hyphenation: In‧gla‧ter‧ra

    Proper noun

    Inglaterra f

    1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom; capital and largest city: Londres)
    2. (proscribed, dated or informal) Great Britain (a large island of the United Kingdom in Northern Europe)
    3. (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.

    Spanish

    Etymology

    Calque of English England. Cognate with Medieval Latin Angliterra.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /inɡlaˈtera/ [ĩŋ.ɡlaˈt̪e.ra]
    • Rhymes: -era
    • Syllabification: In‧gla‧te‧rra

    Proper noun

    Inglaterra f

    1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

    Descendants

    See also

    Further reading