Etymology

Benevento

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Today it means: A city and comune, the capital of the province of Benevento, Campania, in southern Italy. Full definition →

Italian Benevento ← Latin Beneventum
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  1. Latin · derived fromBeneventum
  2. Italian · borrowed fromBenevento
  3. English todayBenevento

From Italian Benevento, from Latin Beneventum, from bene (“good, well”) + ventum (“air”), probably an avoidance term for an earlier Maleventum ("Bad Air").

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