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giudecca

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian giudecca.

Noun

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giudecca (plural giudeccas or giudecche)

  1. (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

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒuˈdɛk.ka/
  • Rhymes: -ɛkka
  • Hyphenation: giu‧dèc‧ca

Noun

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giudecca f (plural giudecche)

  1. (obsolete) a neighborhood in any of several Italian cities once reserved to the Jews; a ghetto
    Hypernym: ghetto

Derived terms

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian giudecca.

Noun

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giudecca f (plural giudecca)

  1. (obsolete) a Jewish ghetto

References

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  • giudecca in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN