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Webster 1913 Edition
Bordello
{
Bor′del
,Bor-del′lo
, }Noun.
[F. See. ]
bordel
, orig. a little hut, OF. borde
hut, cabin, of German origin, and akin to E. board
,Noun.
Board
, Noun.
A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bordello
BORDEL'LO
,Noun.
Definition 2024
bordello
bordello
Italian
Etymology
From Old French bordel (“small hut, cabin; brothel”), diminutive of bord, from Medieval Latin bordellum, from Old Frankish *bord (“board”), from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥dʰ-o- (“board”), suffixed zero-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-edʰ- (“to cut”), suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛllo
Noun
bordello m (plural bordelli)