The story
- Latin · derived fromcastrum“fort”
- Greek · derived fromΑργυρόκαστρον
- Albanian · borrowed fromGjirokastër
- English todayGjirokastër
Borrowed from Albanian Gjirokastër, from Greek Αργυρόκαστρον (Argyrókastron, literally “silver castle”), from άργυρος (árgyros, “silver”) and κάστρον (kástron, “castle”) (from Latin castrum (“fort”)).
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.