bolgia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bolgia.

Noun

bolgia (plural bolgias or bolge)

1. Any of the divisions of the eighth circle of Hell, Malebolge, in Dante's Divine Comedy.

Anagrams

• Baglio, go bail

Italian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Old French bolge, bouge, from Late Latin bulga, or less likely directly from a Latin adjectival form bulgea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔl.d͡ʒa/
• Rhymes: -ɔldʒa
• Hyphenation: bòl‧gia

Noun

bolgia f (plural bolge)

1. a mob or crowd (of people in a confined space)
2. bedlam
3. a bag, a pouch, especially one which opens longways
4. a ditch, hole in the ground
   • 1308–1321, Dante Alighieri (translated by Robert Hollander 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.

Anagrams

• Baglio, baglio