compaña

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese companna, from Vulgar Latin *compānia, from Latin compāniō (whence also French compagnon, Italian compagnone), from cum + pānis, a calque of Gothic. Doublet of compañía. Compare Portuguese companha and Spanish compaña.

• IPA^(key): /komˈpaɲa̝/

compaña f (plural compañas)

1. group of people

   Synonyms: compañía, fato

2. company

   Synonym: compañía

3. (dated) troop or army
4. (mythology, folklore) the procession of the death, also known as estantiga, the "ancient troop" (a Christianized form of the Wild Hunt); similar to the sluagh and fairy host of the folklore of Ireland and Scotland
   • 1746, Martín Sarmiento, Coloquio de 24 gallegos rústicos, page 106:

     Non viche Maruxa, nas noites do inverno, andar a estantiga polos matorreiros, a estantiga digo, que chaman os vellos hostea ou compaña que a todos fai medo

     Haven't you see, Maruxa, in the winter nights, the Estantiga passing by the woods? The Estantiga, I say, the one the old ones call the Host or Company, which frightens everyone

   Synonyms: estantiga, santa compaña

• compañeiro

• “companha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “compaña” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• "compaña" in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “compaña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “compaña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• conpaña (obsolete)

From Old Spanish companna, from Vulgar Latin *compānia, from Late Latin compāniō from cum + pānis (“bread”). Compare Galician compaña and Portuguese companha.

• IPA^(key): /komˈpaɲa/ [kõmˈpa.ɲa]
• Rhymes: -aɲa
• Syllabification: com‧pa‧ña

compaña f (plural compañas)

1. Alternative form of compañía (“company”)

• acompañar

• compañero
• compañón

compaña f (plural compañas)

1. female equivalent of compaño

compaña

1. inflection of compañar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “compaño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014