Genoa definition
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Origin of genoa
- After Genoa
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Latin Genua, as the city was known by the ancient Ligurians; probably from the Ligurian word for "knee", from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéwo- (“knee”), a thematic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu, in this sense "angle," from its geographical position, thus akin to Geneva.
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