bolgia
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editUnadapted borrowing from Italian bolgia (“ditch, trench”), from Old French bolge, bouge, from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”). Doublet of budge and bulge.
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editbolgia (plural bolgias or bolge)
- Any of the divisions of the eighth circle of Hell, Malebolge, in Dante's Divine Comedy.
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editProbably borrowed from Old French bolge, bouge, from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”) (or less likely directly from an adjectival form bulgea), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).
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editbolgia f (plural bolge)
- (archaic) a bag, a pouch, especially one which opens longways
- (archaic) a ditch, a trench, a hole in the ground
- a bolgia (division in Dante's Inferno)
- 1308–1321, Dante Alighieri (translated by Robert and Jean Hollander, 2000), Commedìa (The Inferno), canto 23, lines 31–33:
- S'elli è che sì la destra costa giaccia,
che noi possiam ne l'altra bolgia scendere,
noi fuggirem l'imaginata caccia.- If the slope there to the right allows us
to make our way into the other ditch,
we shall escape the chase we both envision.
- If the slope there to the right allows us
- 1308–1321, Dante Alighieri (translated by Robert and Jean Hollander, 2000), Commedìa (The Inferno), canto 23, lines 31–33:
- (figuratively) a mob or crowd of people in a confined space; a bedlam
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