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)

1. dockyard
2. arsenal

References

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