"St. Gallen" meaning in All languages combined

See St. Gallen on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Forms: St Gallen [alternative], Saint Gallen [alternative]
Etymology: From Latin Gallus (“Gallic; Gaul”). Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} St. Gallen
  1. A canton of Switzerland. Categories (place): Cantons of Switzerland, Places in Switzerland Synonyms: canton of St. Gallen
    Sense id: en-St._Gallen-en-name-hoMH6LDr
  2. The capital city of St. Gallen canton, Switzerland. Categories (place): Cantonal capitals of Switzerland, Cities in Switzerland, Places in Switzerland Synonyms: Saint Gall [historical], St. Gall Derived forms: Gallish Translations (city): Saint-Gall (French), St. Gallen (German), Sankt Gallen (German), Sanggale [Alemannic-German] (German), Sankt Gallen (Italian), Son Gagl [masculine] (Romansh)
    Sense id: en-St._Gallen-en-name-ds-91M0h Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Alemannic German translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romansh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 11 89 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 7 46 22 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 44 26 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Alemannic German translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 8 92 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Romansh translations: 13 87 Disambiguation of 'city': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (canton): Saint-Gall (French), St. Gallen (German), Sankt Gallen (German), Sanggale [Alemannic-German] (German), San Gallo (Italian), São Galo (Portuguese), Son Gagl [masculine] (Romansh)
Disambiguation of 'canton': 53 47

Proper name [German]

IPA: [zaŋkt ˈɡalən] Audio: De-Sankt Gallen.ogg , De-St. Gallen.ogg Forms: St. Gallens [genitive], St. Gallen [genitive, with-article], SG [alternative], Sankt Gallen [alternative]
Head templates: {{de-proper noun|toponym}} St. Gallen n (proper noun, genitive St. Gallens or (optionally with an article) St. Gallen)
  1. St Gallen (a canton of Switzerland) Tags: neuter, proper-noun Categories (place): Cantons of Switzerland, Places in Switzerland Synonyms: Kanton St. Gallen
    Sense id: en-St._Gallen-de-name-9mq-onot Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 48 52
  2. St. Gallen (the capital city of St. Gallen canton, Switzerland) Tags: neuter, proper-noun Categories (place): Cantonal capitals of Switzerland, Cities in Switzerland, Places in Switzerland
    Sense id: en-St._Gallen-de-name-tRkETJJJ Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 48 52

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (05c257f and 9d9a410). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.