Etymology

fondaco

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Today it means: A trading factory, trading post, or colony operated by the Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and the early modern period, chiefly around the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Full definition →

Italian fondaco ← Medieval Latin fundicusinflu. ← Arabic فُنْدُق (funduq)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*peh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ph₂énts?
  3. Proto-Hellenic*pánts
  4. Ancient Greekπᾰν- (păn-)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*deḱ-
  6. Ancient Greekδοκ- (dok-)
  7. Ancient Greekπανδοκεῖον (pandokeîon)
  8. Arabicفُنْدُق (funduq)
  9. Medieval Latinfundicusinflu.
  10. Italianfondaco
  11. English todayfondaco

Borrowed from Italian fondaco. Doublet of fonda and fonduk.

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