giudecca
See also: Giudecca
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian giudecca
Noun edit
giudecca (plural giudeccas or giudecche)
- (historical) A Jewish ghetto in an Italian city.
- 1907, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Sicily, the New Winter Resort: An Encyclopaedia of Sicily, page 206:
- There are not a great many Jews in Sicily, though Syracuse and Trapani have their Giudeccas.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin iudeca, from Latin iūdaica, feminine form of iūdaicus (“Judaic, Jewish”), ultimately from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá, “Judah”). Doublet of giudaica. Compare Sicilian judeca.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
giudecca f (plural giudecche)
- (obsolete) a neighborhood in any of several Italian cities once reserved to the Jews; a ghetto
- Hypernym: ghetto
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian giudecca.
Noun edit
giudecca f (plural giudecca)