English
giudecca
Giudecca comes from Italian giudecca ‘a neighborhood in any of several Italian…’, and goes back to Latin iūdaicus ‘Judaic, Jewish’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūdaicus‘Judaic, Jewish’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūdaicafeminine form of iūdaicus
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500iudeca
- Italianc. 1300–presentgiudecca‘a neighborhood in any of several Italian cities once reserved to the Jews’
- Englishearliest quotation 1907same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūdaicus‘Judaic, Jewish’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūdaicafeminine form of iūdaicus
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500iudeca
- Italianc. 1300–presentgiudecca‘a neighborhood in any of several Italian cities once reserved to the Jews’
- Englishearliest quotation 1907same form
Earliest quotation: 1907, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Sicily: “There are not a great many Jews in Sicily,…”
Every English word from Latin iūdaicus
Today it means
noun A Jewish ghetto in an Italian city.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin iūdaicus / giudecca