It seems to have an anthroponymic origin, as is presumed in the western Galician area for Rubiáns, from a Latin name Rubianus. This origin is also adduced for Rubiá (villa Rubiana, from a possible Rubius), as Domínguez Quiroga points out (252). Cited bibliography:  -Domínguez Quiroga, Manuel. Toponimia da provincia de Ourense. Ourense: Deputación Provincial de…

In principle, it would seem to come from the Latin medianos “median lands or territories”, “situated between two places”, although the name also found in Galician – although it is not the popular one there – is As Maus, and for this toponym it has been suggested that it comes from Asmanos as a gentilicio,…

A toponym with a double diminutive (Souto-Soutelo-Soutelinho), whose base souto (< lat. saltus) usually refers in this area to a land populated by chestnut and oak trees.

Lama de Arcos or Lamadarcos, also with an univerbation in Portuguese, is a compound of the voice lama ‘silt, mud’, alluding to wet ground.

According to the DOELP (s. v.), Cambedo is a derivative of the old feminine noun camba, with an obscure meaning, perhaps ‘grindstone, hand mill’. In any case, it could be a toponym with the Celtic component cam(b)- in allusion to a curved referent. Cited bibliography:  DOELP = Machado, José Pedro. Dicionário onomástico etimológico da língua…

According to the DOELP (s. v. Vila Verde), it is common in northern Portugal and Galicia as a designation suggested by the greenness of the fields; it also favours connotations of fertility and productivity. Cited bibliography:  DOELP = Machado, José Pedro. Dicionário onomástico etimológico da língua portuguesa. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2003, 3ª ed.

Derived from vilar.

It was called Aquae Flaviae in homage to the gens Flavia, to which Vespasian, its founder in 78 AD, belonged. The toponym Chaves comes from the Latin locative ablative Flaviis (Aquis).

It owes its name to a Latin anthroponym Verinius in its genitive form: Verinii.

Moimenta, a toponym that also usually refers to stones, although in principle with a different purpose. In this case they are megaliths, dolmens, tumuli or archaeological remains. Like Monumenta in Zamora, it comes from the plural of the Latin monumentum ‘commemorative erection’. This type of ‘monuments’ are not uncommon in various places in the vicinity…