The hagiotoponyms of Xapuri

Abstract

This article is a cross-section of a larger research, which presents the toponymic nomenclature of four municipalities in the state of Acre: Assis Brasil, Brasiléia, Epitaciolândia and Xapuri. In the present text, we present an analysis of the hagiotoponyms of the municipality of Xapuri. For this purpose, we analyze and describe the lexical-semantic aspects of toponyms, presenting the interrelationship between the linguistic, social and cultural elements. We used, as a theoretical-methodological basis, Dick's studies (1990, 1999, 1987) to analyze the corpus of the research, whose data were extracted from digital maps of the municipality of Xapuri, scale 1: 100,000 and 1: 250,000 provided by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE / AC; as well as spreadsheets for settlement projects of the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform - INCRA and Acre Department of the Environment - SEMA. The results demonstrate the prominence of hagiotoponyms among the other toponymic taxonomies, with 21. 72%; in relation to the etymology, Latin prevailed with the percentage of 56.12% among the other etymon, which confirms the prominence of the names of saints of the catholic church; As for morphological structures, the most prominent toponymic syntagma composition was the simple structure, with a percentage of 34.39%. However, the second most recurrent were the compound syntagms, whose formation is adjective + noun, with 23.08%, which confirms the prominence of hagiotoponyms, since the structure of the hagiotoponym follows the syntagmatic model bequeathed by Portugal, which is composed by "São", "Santa" and/or "Santo" followed by the noun/name.