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bolgia

/ˈboʊldʒə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
bol-gia
IPA
/ˈboʊldʒə/
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the divisions of the eighth circle of Hell, Malebolge, in Dante's Divine Comedy.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian bolgia (“ditch, trench”), from Old French bolge, bouge, from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”). Doublet of budge and bulge.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

bolgias (plural) bolge (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce bolgia?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈboʊldʒə/.
What does bolgia mean?
Any of the divisions of the eighth circle of Hell, Malebolge, in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Where does bolgia come from?
It is traced to Old French.

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