Ledigos
PalenciaCastilla y León
Toponym of disputed origin. The most widespread reading derives it from the Latin genitive plural Letigorum ('[of the] Letigii'), a Hispano-Roman gens documented in local epigraphy. Another reading, today minority, appeals to an opaque pre-Roman base related to minor watercourses of the Carrión basin.
The Letigii (also Litigii in some sources) are attested in two funerary inscriptions of northern Palencia as a Hispano-Roman gens that owned several villae rusticae in the Carrión valley. The Latin genitive plural Letigorum ('of the Letigii') would have given its name to the settlement that grew around one of those villas, following the same pattern we saw in Betanzos (Brittancium). The medieval Castilian form —documented from the 12th century in charters of the Sahagún monastery— preserves the tonic -o- of the genitive. The village is small and always has been; its Jacobean importance comes from being an intermediate stop on one of the longest and most monotonous stages of the Francés, between Carrión and Sahagún. The parish church of Santiago, of Romanesque transition, preserves 15th-century wall paintings.
Evolution of the name
- Letigorum Latin 2nd — 5th centuries
- Ledigos medieval Castilian from the 12th century
Glossary
- Anthroponym
- A personal name, often used as the base of toponyms (Lucronius → Logroño, Sigerici → Castrojeriz, Sacavus → Sacavém).
- Attested
- A form or word documented in writing in historical sources; opposed to "reconstructed" (forms proposed by comparative inference but not actually documented).
Sources
- Diputación de Palencia — Inventario de patrimonio jacobeo
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