Genua

From Latin Genua.

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /ˈɣeː.ny.ʋaː/

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Genua n

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)

Ultimately from Latin Genua, perhaps directly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeːnua/

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Genua n (proper noun, genitive Genuas or (optionally with an article) Genua)

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)

• Genuese
• Genueser
  • genueser

• genau

• Genowa

Borrowed from German Genua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛ.nu.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛnua
• Syllabification: Ge‧nu‧a

Genua f (related adjective genueński)

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)

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “Genua”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “Genua”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

Probably from the Ancient Ligurian word for "knee", from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénw-eh₂ (“knee”), a derivative of *ǵónu, in this sense "angle," from its geographical position, thus akin to Geneva.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛ.nu.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛː.nu.a]

Genua f sg (genitive Genuae); first declension

1. Genoa (the capital city of the modern Metropolitan City of Genoa and the region of Liguria, in modern Italy)
2. Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, in modern Italy)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Ancient Greek: Γένουα (Génoua)
• Italian: Genova
• Padanian:
  • Old Ligurian: Ziéna, Zenoa
    • Ligurian: Zena
  • Piedmontese: Génoa, Zénoa, Zena
• Old French: Jannes
  • Middle French: jean (fustian)
    • French: Gênes, jeans
    • Middle English: Gene (fustian), Geayne
      • English: jeans

• “Genua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Genua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “jeans”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Derived from Latin Genua.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛˈnu.a/

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• Rhymes: -ua
• Syllabification: Ge‧nu‧a

Genua f

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)

• Genua in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin Genua.

Genua n (genitive Genuas)

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)