Padova
See also: Pàdova
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Latin Patavium, which may have had a variant Vulgar Latin form *Patava/*Pataua, later monophthongized to Padoa in the local Venetian language, and transcribed as Padua in Medieval Latin; this then became Padova in the Tuscan dialect (and hence later Italian) after labialization of the 'u'.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Padova f
- Padua (a city and province of Veneto, Italy)
- the letter P in the Italian spelling alphabet
- Synonym: Palermo
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- Padova on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it