villaggio Italian · revision 38959

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1348, Giovanni Villani|origins=la vīlla}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /vilˈlad.d͡ʒo/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''villaggio''' ''m'' (plural villaggi)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fro|village]], from [[la|vīllāticus|t=of a farmstead]], an adjective formed on [[m|la|vīlla|t=country house, farm]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Wiktionary) Devoto's Avviamento compares the pattern of [[m|la|silvāticus]] from [[m|la|silva]].^(Devoto 1968|471) Prati adds that the French word was Latinized as [[la-med|villagium]] in 1235.^(Prati 1951|1054)

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+ Meyer-Lübke lists [[fro|village]] and [[pro|villatge]] as the sources of the Italian word, of [[es|villaje]] and of [[pt|villagem]].^(REW 1935) The Latin noun itself survives in Italian [[villa]] and in [[vec|vila|t=village]].^(REW 1935)

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+ Latin [[m|la|vīlla]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*weikslā]], from [[ine-pro|*weyḱ-|t=settlement]], and is related to [[m|la|vīcus|t=village]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI's first record is Giovanni Villani's chronicle (before 1348), in the sense “small inhabited place”: Villani tells how a captain took Castelvecchio and several small castles and villages belonging to the people of Modena.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)^(GDLI|21)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From Villani on the word named a country village, a group of houses without town walls.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861|4, 1841)^(GDLI|21) DELI notes that a wooden ''villaggio Regina Elena'' was built just after the Messina earthquake, and that the sense “a planned residential complex with its own services, on the edge of a city” is in dictionaries from 1942 and 1961.^(DELI 1999)

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+ In the 20th century came the ''villaggio olimpico'' for athletes, the ''villaggio universitario'', and the ''villaggio turistico'' or ''villaggio vacanze'', a holiday resort.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(GDLI|21) ''Villaggio globale'' is a calque of English ''global village'', the phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011) In ethnology and archaeology the word names the simplest form of human settlement, such as a prehistoric lake village on piles.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1235 – Medieval Latin ''villagium'' is recorded.^(Prati 1951|1054)

+ * Before 1348 – Giovanni Villani uses ''villaggio''.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * 1942 – The Zingarelli dictionary has the sense “residential complex”.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1961 – A dictionary defines the planned suburban ''villaggio''.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|village]], a small inhabited place: ''un villaggio sulla costa''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A group of buildings planned for a particular group of residents, with its own services: ''villaggio olimpico'', ''villaggio universitario''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # A holiday [[m|en|resort]] (''villaggio turistico'', ''villaggio vacanze'').^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(ethnology, archaeology)'' The simplest form of human [[m|en|settlement]]: ''un villaggio di capanne''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[villaggetto]]

+ * [[villaggiesco]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[villa]]

+ * [[fr|village]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Lo scemo del villaggio'', “the village idiot”, is someone everybody laughs at.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}