borgo
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian borgo. Doublet of borough.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
borgo (plural borgos)
- A small Italian village.
- 2007 January 11, Maureen Orth, “Shopping for a Villa, He Wound Up With a Village”, in New York Times[1]:
- The borgo’s five acres and five dilapidated structures were part of an estate once owned by the Borghese family, and overlooked a valley of hills and vineyards.
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin burgus. Doublet of bricco.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
borgo m (plural borghi, diminutive borghétto, pejorative borgàccio)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- borgo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- borgo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- borgo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- borgo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- bórgo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- bórgo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- borgo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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