Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Aleimanna

Proper noun

Alemanna f

1. Germany (the land of the German people)
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 218 (facsimile):

     Eſta é como ſanta maría guareceu en víla ſírga un ome bõo Dalemanna que era contreito.

     This one is [about] how Holy Mary cured, in Villalcázar de Sirga, a good man from Germany who was paralysed.

Descendants

• Galician: Alemaña
• Portuguese: Alemanha

Italian

Adjective

alemanna

1. feminine singular of alemanno