Genua

From Latin Genua.

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /ˈɣeː.ny.ʋaː/

• audio (Belgium)

  (file)

• audio (Netherlands)

  (file)

Genua n

1. Genoa (the capital city of Liguria, Italy)
2. Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, Italy)

Ultimately from Latin Genua, perhaps directly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeːnua/

• Audio

  (file)

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

1. Genoa (the capital city of Liguria, Italy)
2. Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, Italy)

• Genueser
  • genueser

• genau

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) IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.nu.a/, [ˈɡɛnuä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.nu.a/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːnuä]

Genua f sg (genitive Genuae); first declension

1. Genoa (the capital city 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 (2001–2024) “jeans”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Latin Genua.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛˈnu.a/

• Audio

  (file)

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

Genua f

1. Genoa (the capital city of Liguria, Italy)
2. Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, Italy)

• Genua in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin Genua.

Genua n (genitive Genuas)

1. Genoa (the capital city of Liguria, Italy)
2. Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, Italy)