Meanings
- literatureA zone in Dante's Inferno reserved to the traitors to masters and benefactors, named after Judas Iscariot
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The Judecca, or Last Circlet of Cocytus, takes its name from Judas Iscariot, and contains the souls of those ‘who betrayed their masters and benefactors.’ […] Dante […] is carried through the Centre by his Mystic Guide—“grappling on the hair of Satan,” not without significance; and set down on “the other face of the Judecca.”
1849, John A[itken] Carlyle, “[Canto XXXIV.] Argument.”, in Dante’s Divine Comedy: The Inferno. A Literal Prose Translation, […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 411
Origin
- Hebrewיְהוּדָה“Judah, Judas”
- Latiniūdaica
- Medieval Latiniudeca
- ItalianGiudecca
- EnglishJudecca
Borrowed from Italian Giudecca, from giudecca (“Jewish ghetto”), from Medieval Latin iudeca, from Latin iūdaica, feminine form of iūdaicus (“Judaic, Jewish”), ultimately from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá, “Judah, Judas”). Doublet of Judaica and Giudecca.
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