Genova

From Italian Genova.

Genova

1. Genoa (a port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Genoa and the region of Liguria, Italy)
2. Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Genoa)

From Italian Genova.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡenoʋɑ/, [ˈɡe̞no̞ʋɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -enoʋɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ge‧no‧va
• Hyphenation^(key): Ge‧no‧va

Genova

1. Genoa (a port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Genoa and the region of Liguria, Italy)
2. Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Genoa)

From Italian Genova.

• IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛnovɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ge‧no‧va
• Rhymes: -vɒ

Genova

1. Genoa (a port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Genoa and the region of Liguria, Italy)
2. Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Genoa)

• genovai

From Latin Genua, possibly from the Ancient Ligurian word for knee. Compare also Latin genu; alternatively it may derive ultimately from a Celtic root *genu-, *genawa (“mouth (i.e. estuary”), making it possibly akin to the root of Geneva as well.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛ.no.va/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnova
• Hyphenation: Gè‧no‧va

Genova f

1. Genoa (a port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Genoa and the region of Liguria, Italy)
   • c. 1300 [c. 1298], Marco Polo et al., Milione [Million]‎^[1], translation of Le divisement dou monde by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa (in Old French); republished as chapter 1, in Antonio Lanza, editor, Il Milione di Marco Polo, L'Unità - Editori Riuniti, 1982:

     E sí vi dico ched egli dimorò in que’ paesi bene trentasei anni; lo quale poi, stando nella prigione di Genova, fece mettere in iscritto tutte queste cose a messere Rustico da Pisa

     [E sì vi dico ched egli dimorò in que' paesi bene trentasei anni; lo quale poi, stando nella prigione di Genova, fece mettere in iscritto tutte queste cose a messere Rustico da Pisa]

     [original: et si voç di qu'il demora a ce savoir en celles deverses parties et provences bien .xxvi. anç. Le quel puis, demorant en la charchre de Jene, fist retraire toutes cestes chouses a messire Rustaciaus de Pise (Franco-Venetian)]

     And I will also tell you that he [Marco Polo] lived in those lands for thirty-six whole years; then he, being in the prison of Genoa, had all these things written down by sir Rustichello da Pisa

2. Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Genoa)
3. the letter G in the Italian spelling alphabet

• genovese
• genovina

• Liguria

• gavone, negavo, vagone, vegano

From Italian Genova.

Genova

1. Genoa (a port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Genoa and the region of Liguria, Italy)
2. Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Genoa)

From Italian Genova.

Genova

1. Genoa (a port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Genoa and the region of Liguria, Italy)
2. Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Genoa)