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podesta definition

po·desta (pō′des tä′, pō′des tä′)

noun

  1. a chief magistrate of a medieval Italian town
  2. a minor official in an Italian town

Etymology: It podestà < L potestas, power < potis, able: see potent

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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