Padova
See also: Pàdova
Italian
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin Patavium, which may have had a variant Vulgar Latin form *Patava/*Pataua, later monophthongized to Padoa in the local Venetian language, and transcribed as Padua in Medieval Latin; this then became Padova in the Tuscan dialect (and hence later Italian) after labialization of the 'u'.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Padova f
- Padua
- The letter P in the Italian phonetic alphabet
- Synonym: Palermo
Derived terms
Further reading
- Padova on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it