arsenale

See also: Arsenale

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic دَار اَلصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “industry house”). The form could be due to formal assimilation to words with -ale, with reanalysis of the initial d as d' (“of”). Compare darsena.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ar.seˈna.le/
Rhymes: -ale
Hyphenation: ar‧se‧nà‧le

Noun

arsenale m (plural arsenali)

References

arsenale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
“arsenal, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2024.