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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)
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