"bolgia" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: bolgias [plural], bolge [plural]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian bolgia (“ditch, trench”), from Old French bolge, bouge, from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”). Doublet of budge and bulge. Etymology templates: {{ubor|en|it|bolgia||ditch, trench}} Unadapted borrowing from Italian bolgia (“ditch, trench”), {{der|en|fro|bolge}} Old French bolge, {{der|en|LL.|bulga||wallet, purse}} Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), {{der|en|cel-gau|bolgā}} Gaulish bolgā, {{der|en|cel-pro|*bolgos||sack, bag}} Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰelǵʰ-||to swell}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”), {{doublet|en|budge|bulge}} Doublet of budge and bulge Head templates: {{en-noun|s|bolge}} bolgia (plural bolgias or bolge)
  1. Any of the divisions of the eighth circle of Hell, Malebolge, in Dante's Divine Comedy.
    Sense id: en-bolgia-en-noun-UW4wwXlE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Italian]

IPA: /ˈbɔl.d͡ʒa/ Forms: bolge [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔldʒa Etymology: Probably borrowed from Old French bolge, bouge, from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”) (or less likely directly from an adjectival form bulgea), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”). Etymology templates: {{bor|it|fro|bolge}} Old French bolge, {{der|it|LL.|bulga||wallet, purse}} Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), {{der|it|cel-gau|bolgā}} Gaulish bolgā, {{der|it|cel-pro|*bolgos||sack, bag}} Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag”), {{der|it|ine-pro|*bʰelǵʰ-||to swell}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”) Head templates: {{it-noun|f}} bolgia f (plural bolge)
  1. (archaic) a bag, a pouch, especially one which opens longways Tags: archaic, feminine
    Sense id: en-bolgia-it-noun-K557WWWd Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 16 39 1 44
  2. (archaic) a ditch, a trench, a hole in the ground Tags: archaic, feminine Synonyms: fossa, fosso, fossato
    Sense id: en-bolgia-it-noun-K4wtygb1 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 16 39 1 44
  3. a bolgia (division in Dante's Inferno) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-bolgia-it-noun-BtwH5CUx
  4. (figuratively) a mob or crowd of people in a confined space; a bedlam Tags: feminine, figuratively Synonyms: babele, babilonia, inferno, bordello, casino, bailamme, marasma
    Sense id: en-bolgia-it-noun-GqSu5sn5 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 16 39 1 44
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bolgetta [feminine], Malebolge [feminine, plural], sbolgiare

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.