Etymology

Malebolge

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Today it means: The eighth circle of Hell in the Divine Comedy. Full definition →

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The story

Unadapted borrowing from Italian Malebolge (literally “Evil Ditches”). See bolgia.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.