gazzetta
English edit
Etymology edit
From Italian gazzetta. Doublet of gazette.
Noun edit
gazzetta (plural gazzettas or gazzette)
- (historical) An old Venetian coin, equal to a halfpenny.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed in the 17th century from Venetian gazeta (“newspaper”), from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper.
The etymology of the coin’s name is disputed.[1] Most likely, it is from Venetian garzia (1518), variant of carzie (“a coin of little value”) (dialectal Greek χαρξια (charxia)), ultimately from Ancient Greek χαλκός (khalkós, “copper, copper alloy”), itself probably ultimately a borrowing.
Traditionally it is usually considered a diminutive of Latin gāza (“treasure”) (as in Medieval Latin gazetum), from Ancient Greek γάζα (gáza), of Iranian origin, probably ultimately Old Median *ganǰam (“treasure”) (compare Persian گنج (ganj)).
An alternative explanation derives it from German Kreuzer (“a small coin with a cross”), due to a cross on one of the coin’s faces.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gazzetta f (plural gazzette)
Usage notes edit
- Capitalised/capitalized: any of several local newspapers.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Albanian: gazetë
- → Catalan: gaseta
- → French: gazette
- → Amharic: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa)
- → Belarusian: газе́та (hazjéta)
- → Breton: kazetenn
- → English: gazette
- → German: Gazette
- → Silesian: gazyta
- → Khmer: កាសែត (kaasaet)
- → Polish: gazeta
- → Russian: газе́та (gazéta)
- ⇒ Azerbaijani: qəzet
- ⇒ Bashkir: гәзит (gəzit)
- → Buryat: газетэ (gazjete)
- ⇒ Bezhta: газит (gazit)
- → Georgian: გაზეთ- (gazet-, stem), გაზეთი (gazeti, nominative singular)
- ⇒ Kazakh:
- ⇒ Kyrgyz: гезит (gezit)
- ⇒ Kildin Sami: газет (gaz’et)
- ⇒ Skolt Sami: gaʹzaat, gaʹzeâʹt
- ⇒ Southern Altai: газет (gazet)
- → Tajik: газета (gazeta)
- ⇒ Tatar: газет (ğazet), гәзит (gäzit)
- ⇒ Turkmen: gazet
- ⇒ Uyghur: گېزىت (gëzit)
- → Uzbek: gazeta
- ⇒ Yakut: хаһыат (qahıat)
- → Tigrinya: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa)
- → Ukrainian: газе́та (hazéta)
- → West Flemish: gazette
- → Maltese: gazzetta
- → Portuguese: gazeta
- → Romansch: gasetta
- → Spanish: gaceta, gazeta
- → Tagalog: gaseta
- → Turkish: gazete
References edit
- ^ Mario Infelise (2016) “The History of a word: Gazzetta / Gazette”, in Joad Raymond, Noah Moxham, editors, News Network in Early Modern Europe[1], Leiden Boston, Brill, →ISBN, archived from the original on 22 April 2017, pages 243–260