valigia – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of valigia

Noun: valigia
Gender: f Hyphenation: va‧lì‧gia
Singular fvaligia
Plural fvaligie; valige

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Etymology

1. Borrowed from a language of Northern Italy (cf. Venetan valís, Lombard valiza), from Medieval Latin valesia, valixia, from Late Latin valisia, possibly from Gaulish *valisia (“leather bag”), from Proto-Celtic *wal- (“to enclose, surround”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-. Or, possibly from Arabic وَلِيهَة (walīha, “large bag”).
2. Related to French valise and Spanish valija, though it is unclear if either term was borrowed from the other. See: French Nouns 'valise', Spanish Nouns 'valija'.

Verbs referencing "valigia"

French Nouns valise, Spanish Nouns valija, Greek Nouns βαλίτσα, Galician Nouns valixa.

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