reggio calabria
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A historical province and metropolitan city of Calabria, Italy.
name
Regium, an important flourishing Ancient Greek colonial settlement in Magna Graecia on the Strait of Messina from the early 1st millennium BCE thru the Hellenistic, Ancient Roman, Byzantine Roman and medieval epochs.
Etymology
From Italian Reggio Calabria, from the earlier Old Italian Reggio, from Late Latin Rēgium, Latin Rhēgium, from Ancient Greek Ῥήγιον (Rhḗgion). The city became known as Reggio Calabria after the unification of Italy.