Ladino

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Etymology

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Possibly from Aragonese faxa, from Latin fascia, with nominalizing suffix Ladino -dura.

Noun

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fashadura f (Latin spelling)

  1. swaddling clothes
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  • kortar fashadura (cutting the swaddling, an Ottoman Jewish tradition where women cut the clothes for their newborn babies during the early months of pregnancy and sang Ladino songs)[1]

References

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  1. ^ Elli Kohen, Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000) Ladino-English/English-Ladino Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary (Judeo-Spanish), New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN