compañía

• companhia (reintegrationist)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese companhia (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French companie, from Vulgar Latin *compania. Doublet of compaña.

Cognate with Portuguese companhia and Spanish compañía.

• IPA^(key): [kompaˈɲiɐ]

compañía f (plural compañías)

1. company, companionship

   Synonym: compaña

   • 1473, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 29:

     os quales diñeiros gastei en desenbargar os bees e terras que meu señor padre enpeñou a payo gomez de soutomayor vasallo do Rey e señor que foi da casa forte de lantaño para a costa que tebo ennas sahidas que fiso con os demais fidalgos da terra en compañia do señor arçobispo e perlado de santiago don lope de mendoza

     said money I spent in redeeming the assets and lands that my father pawned to Paio Gómez de Soutomaior, vassal of the King and late lord of the stronghold of Lataño, for the expenses he had in the expeditions that he did together with the other noblemen of the country, in the company of the lord archbishop and prelate of Santiago Don Lope de Mendoza

2. company (corporation, business)

   Synonym: empresa

3. company (group of individuals)

   Synonyms: compaña, fato

4. (military) company

• acompañar
• compaña

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “compania”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “compania”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “compañía”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “compañía”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “compañía”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• compaña

Inherited from Old Spanish compaña (assimilated to -ía), from Late Latin *compānia. By surface analysis, compaña +‎ -ía. More at companion.

• IPA^(key): /kompaˈɲia/ [kõm.paˈɲi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: com‧pa‧ñí‧a

compañía f (plural compañías)

1. company

   Synonyms: empresa, firma

2. companion
3. companionship

   Synonym: compañerismo

• → Tagalog: kompanya

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