ghetto

Concepts

ghetto

Traductions

gueto

Getto

Ghetto

ghetto

gueto

gueto

getto

γκέτο

favela

getto

judiaria

Jewry

ghetto

jueria

Coupé comme

ghét‧to

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɡet.to/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from Venetan ghèto (“foundry”). Alternatively a clipping of borghetto, diminutive of borgo (“village”). Initially used of the areas Jews were concentrated, later extended to concentrations of other ethnicities and then non-ethnic groups.