freguesía

Attested since the 13th century (feegresia, fiigresia), from fregués (“parishioner”) +‎ -ía.

• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: fre‧gue‧si‧a

freguesía f (plural freguesías)

1. parish

   Synonym: parroquia

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “freigresja”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “fiigresia”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “freguesia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “freguesía”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Borrowed from Galician freguesía

• IPA^(key): /fɾeɡeˈsia/ [fɾe.ɣ̞eˈsi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: fre‧gue‧sí‧a

freguesía f (plural freguesías)

1. parish (in Galicia)