Sacavém
Camino Portugués · Camino Portugués de la Costa
Distrito de LisboaPortugal
Here Camino Portugués and Camino Portugués de la Costa converge. It is one of the points where the pilgrim shares the way with those arriving by another route.
From the Latin Sacaveni, genitive of the personal name Sacavus: 'the [estate] of Sacavus'. A toponym characteristic of Roman Lusitanian fundi, preserved intact since imperial epigraphy.
The suffix -eni / -veni is a typical marker in Lusitanian toponymy of ownership by a Roman landlord, parallel to Galician -és or Castilian -anes. The personal name Sacavus is attested in epigraphic inscriptions from central Iberia. The modern Portuguese Sacavém preserves the Latin structure with barely any phonetic erosion —rare for a two-thousand-year-old toponym—.
Evolution of the name
- Sacaveni Latin (genitivo de antropónimo) 1st — 5th century
- Sacavem / Sacavém medieval Portuguese from the 12th century
Glossary
- Anthroponym
- A personal name, often used as the base of toponyms (Lucronius → Logroño, Sigerici → Castrojeriz).
Sources
- Machado, J.P. — Dicionário Onomástico Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa
- Piel, J.M. — Antroponímia germânica (Coímbra, 1960)
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