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- Italian · borrowed fromacqua alta
- English todayacqua alta
Borrowed from Italian acqua alta (literally “high water”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
acqua alta
Today it means: A phenomenon that regularly occurs in the city of Venice, Italy, typically during high and spring tide, involving the flooding of the most low-lying areas of Venice. Full definition →
Italian acqua alta