Inglaterra

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inɡlaˈtera/, [ĩŋ.ɡlaˈt̪e.ra]

Proper noun

Inglaterra f

1. England

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Inglaterra

1. England (a country in Europe)

Galician

Proper noun

Inglaterra f

1. England

Related terms

• inglés

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Anglaterra, Englaterra, Engraterra, Ingraterra, Jnglaterra

Etymology

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

Noun

Inglaterra f

1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom, Europe; capital: Londres)
   • 13th century CE, 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1300, 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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: ILG

Portuguese

bandeira da Inglaterra

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *angliz

Old English Engle

Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-

Proto-Germanic *landą

Proto-West Germanic *land

Old English land

Old English Engla land

Middle English Engelondcalq.

Medieval Latin Angliterra

Old Galician-Portuguese Inglaterra

Portuguese Inglaterra

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^(key): /ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.ʁɐ/ [ĩ.ɡlaˈtɛ.hɐ]

• (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, Europe; capital: Londres)
2. (proscribed, dated or informal) the United Kingdom

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

Proper noun

Inglaterra f

1. England

Related terms

• inglés
• Nueva Inglaterra

 

Descendants

• → 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