bologna · noun1
From the Italian city of Bologna.
bologna · noun2
Probably from the Polari slang word balonie, respelled under the influence of the preceding homophonous word bologna (“sausage”); alternatively, perhaps simply an extended use of bologna (“sausage”). See baloney for more.
Bologna · proper noun3
- Celtic · derived from
- Latin · derived fromBonōnia
- Italian · borrowed fromBologna
- English todayBologna
From Italian Bologna, from Latin Bonōnia, ultimately from Celtic. Doublet of Boleyn and Boulogne.
Words from the same roots
LatinBonōnia all →
Boulogne
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.