A fact from Quintana Square appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 July 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the lower level of Santiago de Compostela's Plaza de la Quintana is called the Quintana de Mortos because it was once a cemetery?
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Latest comment: 10 months ago4 comments2 people in discussion
I know a few words of Spanish and Portuguese but I'm not proficient. It irritates me that in the translation of "Quintana de los mortos" all of the easy words have been translated for me, but the one word I don't know - "Quintana" - has been left untouched. I wish you had worked hard to translate "Quintana" into English, and left me to figure out "de los mortos" by myself, instead of the other way around. TooManyFingers (talk) 05:42, 25 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
Check out The dictionary definition of quintana at Wiktionary. --evrik(talk) 14:35, 25 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
I had already looked there.
"Fifth"?
"Farmhouse"?
"Street in a Roman camp between the fifth and sixth maniples, which includes the market"?
"Place"?
The fact that there are several definitions was the reason I asked.
"Plaza de la Quintana" = "The Place That Is A Place"? :) TooManyFingers (talk) 22:27, 25 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
Seeing that it was a Roman cemetery, let's assume it has a Latin origin. --evrik(talk) 00:05, 26 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
The dictionary definition of quintana at Wiktionary. --evrik (talk) 14:35, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
