giudecca

Borrowed from Italian giudecca

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.

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.

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

giudecca f (plural giudecche)

1. (obsolete) a neighborhood in any of several Italian cities once reserved to the Jews; a ghetto

   Hypernym: ghetto

• Giudecca

Borrowed from Italian giudecca.

giudecca f (plural giudecca)

1. (obsolete) a Jewish ghetto

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