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kingdom of the two sicilies

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English

Syllables
king-dom of the t-wo si-cilies
IPA
42
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
4
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A former kingdom in southern Italy with its capital at Palermo and Naples between 1816 and 1861, covering Sicily and most of the present-day Mezzogiorno.

Etymology

A calque of Italian Regno delle Due Sicilie and Latin Regnum Utriusque Siciliae, both named in reference to the 1816 creation of the state as the personal union of the Kingdom of Sicily before Faro (the Kingdom of Naples, by its formal name), and the Kingdom of Sicily beyond Faro (the Kingdom of Sicily proper).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (canonical)

Synonyms

Two Sicilies Sicily Kingdom of Naples Naples

Questions

What does kingdom of the two sicilies mean?
A former kingdom in southern Italy with its capital at Palermo and Naples between 1816 and 1861, covering Sicily and most of the present-day Mezzogiorno.
Where does kingdom of the two sicilies come from?
It is traced to Italian.

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