Ladino edit

Etymology edit

Possibly from Aragonese faxa, from Latin fascia, with nominalizing suffix Ladino -dura.

Noun edit

fashadura f (Latin spelling)

  1. swaddling clothes

Related terms edit

  • kortar fashadura (cutting the swaddling, an Ottoman Jewish tradition where women cut the clothes for their newborn babies during the early months of pregnancy and sang Ladino songs)[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Kohen, Elli (2000) Ladino-English/English-Ladino Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN