Manresa
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Pre-Roman toponym attested as Minorisa on Iberian coins. The most sustained etymology derives it from an Iberian base with locative suffix, without clear filiation.
Capital of the Bages. Saint Ignatius of Loyola lived in the cave of Manresa between 1522 and 1523, where he wrote the Spiritual Exercises that founded Jesuit spirituality.
Evolution of the name
- Minorisa Iberian 3rd–1st centuries BC
- Manresa medieval Catalan from the 10th century
Glossary
- Attested
- A form or word documented in writing in historical sources; opposed to "reconstructed" (forms proposed by comparative inference but not actually documented).
- Cova de Sant Ignasi
- Natural grotto in the Cardener ravine (Manresa) where Saint Ignatius of Loyola retired between 25 March 1522 and 17 February 1523, after leaving Loyola and before departing to Jerusalem. During the eleven months of spiritual retreat he wrote the foundational principles of the Spiritual Exercises, published in 1548, which founded Jesuit spirituality.
- Etymology
- The origin and history of a word and the phonetic and semantic changes it has undergone. An etymology may be confirmed, probable or disputed depending on documentary attestations and linguistic parallels.
- Locative suffix
- A Castilian ending marking "place of" or "workshop where X is worked": -ería (panadería, herrería), -ero/-era (barquera, Itero "place of the road"). From the Latin -arium.
- Pre-Roman
- Prior to the Romanisation of the Iberian peninsula (3rd century BC); applied to toponyms, linguistic roots and populations.
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