Genoa

See also: genoa

English

Etymology

From Latin Genua (influenced by Italian Genova), as the city was known by the ancient Ligurians. Probably from the Ancient Ligurian word for “knee”, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénw-eh₂ (“knee”), a thematic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu; in this sense “angle”, from its geographical position, thus akin to Geneva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛn.əʊ.ə/, /dʒɛnˈəʊ.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛn.oʊ.ə/, /d͡ʒɛnˈoʊ.ə/

Proper noun

Genoa

1. A province of Liguria, Italy.
2. The capital city of Liguria, Italy, and also of the province of Genoa.
3. A town in the Shire of Eastern Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
4. An unincorporated community in Miller County, Arkansas, United States.
5. A small statutory town in Lincoln County, Colorado, United States.
6. A city in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States.
7. An unincorporated community in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States.
8. A small city in Nance County, Nebraska, United States.
9. An unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
10. A town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.
11. A village in Ottawa County, Ohio, United States.
12. The former name of Perry Heights, an unincorporated community in Stark County, Ohio, United States.
13. A village and town in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States.
14. (historical) a maritime republic in northwestern Italy that existed from the 11th century until its disestablishment in 1797 when Napoleon formed the Ligurian Republic, a client state; Genoa briefly regained independence in 1814 before becoming quickly annexed by the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1815.

Usage notes

The pronunciations with the stress on the second syllable are considered nonstandard.

Translations

province

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱那亞／热那亚 (zh) (Rènàyà), 热那亚 (zh) (Rènàyà)

• Dutch: Genua (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ĝenovo
• Estonian: Genova (et)
• Finnish: Genova (fi)
• French: Gênes (fr) f
• German: Genua (de) n
• Greek: Γένοβα (el) f (Génova)
• Hungarian: Genova (hu)
• Indonesian: Genoa
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: Genova (it) f
• Japanese: ジェノヴァ (jenova)
• Ligurian: Zêna f
• Macedonian: Џенова f (Dženova)
• Polish: Genua (pl) f
• Portuguese: Génova f (Portugal), Gênova f (Brazil)
• Russian: Ге́нуя (ru) f (Génuja)
• Spanish: Génova (es) f
• Swedish: Genua
• Tagalog: Henoba
• Turkish: Cenova (tr)

Italian city

• Afrikaans: Genua
• Albanian: Gjenova f, Xhenova f
• Amharic: ጄኖቫ (ǧenova)
• Arabic: جِنُوَى f (jinowā), جِنْوَة f (jinwa)

  Hijazi Arabic: جِنُوة f (jinuwa)

• Aragonese: Chenova f
• Armenian: Ջենովա (J̌enova), Ճենովա (Čenova)
• Asturian: Xénova f
• Aymara: Genova
• Azerbaijani: Genuya
• Bashkir: Генуя (Genuya)
• Basque: Genova
• Belarusian: Ге́нуя f (Hjénuja)
• Bengali: জেনোভা (bn) (jenōbha)
• Breton: Genova f
• Bulgarian: Ге́нуа f (Génua)
• Burmese: ဂျီနိုအာမြို့ (gyinuia-mrui.)
• Catalan: Gènova f
• Central Franconian: Jenua f
• Chechen: Генуя (Genuja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱那亞／热那亚 (zh) (Rènàyà), 热那亚 (zh) (Rènàyà)

• Corsican: Genuva f
• Czech: Janov (cs) m
• Danish: Genova
• Dutch: Genua (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ĝenovo
• Estonian: Genova (et)
• Extremaduran: Génova
• Farefare: Genoa, Genova, Genua
• Finnish: Genova (fi)
• French: Gênes (fr) f
• Friulian: Gjenue f
• Galician: Xénova (gl) f
• Georgian: გენუა (genua)
• German: Genua (de) n

  Alemannic German: Genua n

• Greek: Γένοβα (el) f (Génova)
• Gujarati: જેનોઆ (jenoā)
• Hebrew: גנואה
• Hindi: जेनोआ (jenoā)
• Hungarian: Genova (hu)
• Icelandic: Genúa f
• Ido: Genova (io)
• Indonesian: Genoa
• Interlingua: Genua
• Irish: Genova f
• Italian: Genova (it) f
• Japanese: ジェノヴァ (Jenova), ジェノア (Jenoa)
• Kannada: ಜಿನೋವಾ (jinōvā)
• Kazakh: Генуя (Genuä)
• Komi-Zyrian: Генуя (Genuja)
• Korean: 제노바 (Jenoba)
• Kyrgyz: Генуя (Genuya)
• Latin: Genua f
• Latvian: Dženova f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ligurian: Zêna f
• Limburgish: Genoewa
• Lithuanian: Genuja f
• Lombard: Genua f
• Luxembourgish: Genua f
• Macedonian: Џенова f (Dženova)
• Maltese: Ġenova f
• Marathi: जेनोवा (jenovā)
• Mingrelian: გენუა (genua)
• Mongolian: Женова (Ženova)
• Neapolitan: Genova f
• North Frisian: Genua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Genova

  Nynorsk: Genova

• Occitan: Gènoa (oc) f
• Ossetian: Генуя (Genuja)
• Papiamentu: Genova
• Persian: جنوآ (fa) (jenoâ)
• Piedmontese: Génoa f
• Polish: Genua (pl) f
• Portuguese: Génova f (Portugal), Gênova f (Brazil)
• Punjabi: ਜੇਨੋਆ (jenoā)
• Quechua: Genova
• Romanian: Genova f
• Russian: Ге́нуя (ru) f (Génuja)
• Sardinian: Gènova f
• Scottish Gaelic: Genova f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ђенова f

  Roman: Genova (sh) f

• Sicilian: Gènuva f
• Silesian: Genova f
• Slovak: Janov m
• Slovene: Genova (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Genua f

• Spanish: Génova (es) f
• Swahili: Genova
• Swedish: Genua
• Tagalog: Henoba
• Tajik: Ге́нуя (Génuya)
• Tamil: செனோவா (ceṉōvā)
• Tarantino: Genova
• Tatar: Җенова (Cenowa)
• Thai: เจนัว (jee-nuua), เจโนวา (jee-noo-waa)
• Turkish: Cenova (tr)
• Ukrainian: Ге́нуя f (Hénuja)
• Venetian: Gènoa f
• Veps: Genui
• Volapük: Genova
• Waray-Waray: Genova
• Welsh: Genova f
• West Frisian: Genua

placename

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱那亞／热那亚 (zh) (Rènàyà), 热那亚 (zh) (Rènàyà)

• Finnish: Genoa (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: Genoa (it) f
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Genoa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Genoa (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ganoe, Genao, Onega, agone