giudecca

See also: Giudecca

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian giudecca.

Noun

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

Etymology

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

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

Noun

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

• Giudecca

Related terms

• Giuda
• giudaico
• giudaismo
• Giudea
• giudeo
• giudia

 

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian giudecca.

Noun

giudecca f (plural giudecca)

1. (obsolete) a Jewish ghetto

References

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