hagiotoponymとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

hagiotoponym (plural hagiotoponyms)

1. (rare) The name of a place that is dedicated to a particular saint
   • 2014, Linda Safran, The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy, page 32:

     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.