Etymograph

English

fondaco

Fondaco comes from Italian fondaco ‘trading factory, warehouse’, from Arabic فُنْدُق ‘inn, hotel’, and ultimately from Ancient Greek πανδοκεῖον.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπανδοκεῖονpandokeîon‘inn’
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentفُنْدُقfunduq‘inn, hotel’
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentfondaco‘trading factory, warehouse’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2007same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπανδοκεῖονpandokeîon‘inn’
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentفُنْدُقfunduq‘inn, hotel’
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentfondaco‘trading factory, warehouse’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2007same form

Earliest quotation: 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane: “Genoese and Venetian fondachi (trading depots) littered the coastline…”

Every English word from Ancient Greek πανδοκεῖον

Today it means

noun A trading factory, trading post, or colony operated by the Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and the early modern period, chiefly around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Ancient Greek πανδοκεῖον / fondaco

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