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Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source language is uncertain. Compare Italian ghetto.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ghetto
ghet·toToday it means: An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) Full definition →