borgo
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian borgo. Doublet of borough.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
borgo (plural borgos)
- A small Italian village.
- 2007 January 11, Maureen Orth, “Shopping for a Villa, He Wound Up With a Village”, in New York Times[1]:
- The borgo’s five acres and five dilapidated structures were part of an estate once owned by the Borghese family, and overlooked a valley of hills and vineyards.
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin burgus. Doublet of bricco.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
borgo m (plural borghi, diminutive borghétto, pejorative borgàccio)
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Further reading edit
- borgo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- borgo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- borgo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- borgo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- bórgo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- bórgo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- borgo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana