gorgia

See also: Gorgia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gorge, from Middle French gorge, from Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, related to Latin gurges (“whirlpool”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔr.d͡ʒa/
• Rhymes: -ɔrdʒa
• Hyphenation: gòr‧gia

Noun

gorgia f (plural gorge)

1. (archaic, anatomy) throat

   Synonym: (not obsolete) gola

2. (figurative) ravine, gorge

   Synonym: gola

3. (linguistics, phonetics)
   2. the lenition of the stop consonants /p, t, k/ (especially the lattermost) found in several areas of Tuscany
   3. the pronunciation of the letter R as a uvular trill

      Synonym: erre moscia

Derived terms

• pappagorgia

Further reading

• (sense 3.1): Gorgia toscana on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• aggiro, aggirò, gigaro, raggio, raggiò, roggia