Etymology

Segovia

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Today it means: A city in Castile and León, Spain. Full definition →

Spanish Segovia ← Latin Segovia ← Celtiberian Segouia
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The story

  1. Proto-Celtic · derived from*segos“victory”
  2. Celtiberian · derived fromSegouia
  3. Latin · derived fromSegovia
  4. Spanish · borrowed fromSegovia
  5. English todaySegovia

Borrowed from Spanish Segovia, from Latin Segovia, from Celtiberian Segouia, from a suffixed form of Proto-Celtic *segos (“victory”). Related city names include Segeda and Segontia.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.