# Compostela

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #68,949

## Definitions
1. Ellipsis of Santiago de Compostela: a city in Galicia, Spain, a major Christian pilgrimage site.

## Etymology
From Spanish Compostela, from Galician Compostela, from Latin compositella (“the little well-organized one”), from composita (“put together, arranged”) + -ella (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from compōnere (“to put together”), from con- (“with, together”) + pōnere (“to put, to place”), q.v.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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