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hagiotoponym

hagiotoponym noun: the name of a place that is dedicated to a particular saint.

Noun

hagiotoponym (plural hagiotoponyms)

  1. (rare) The name of a place that is dedicated to a particular saint
    • From the fourteenth century onward, the successively smaller administrative subdivisions (pictagia, neighborhoods, contained vicinia) of cities like Lecce and Nardò were uniformly hagiotoponyms named after neighborhood churches.2014, Linda Safran, The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy, page 32

Forms of hagiotoponym

pluralhagiotoponyms

Questions about hagiotoponym

What does hagiotoponym mean?
Hagiotoponym means the name of a place that is dedicated to a particular saint.
What part of speech is hagiotoponym?
Hagiotoponym is a noun.
What is the plural of hagiotoponym?
The plural of hagiotoponym is hagiotoponyms.

Words near hagiotoponym in the dictionary

  1. hagioscope
  2. hagioscopes
  3. hagioscopic
  4. Hagiosoritissa
  5. hagiotherapy
  6. hagiotoponym
  7. hagiotoponyms
  8. haglaz
  9. Hagle
  10. Hagler
  11. Haglers

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