Masculine

arsenale

Meaning

  1. (masculine) dockyard
  2. (masculine) arsenal

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
ar‧se‧nà‧le
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ar.seˈna.le/
Etymology

From Arabic دَار اَلصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “industry house”). The form could be due to formal assimilation to words with -ale, with reanalysis of the initial d as d' (“of”). Compare darsena.

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