English Explanatory Dictionary

Ragusa

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A province of Sicily, Italy.
  2. The capital of Ragusa, Italy.
  3. Former name of Dubrovnik: a city and port in southern Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea.
  4. The Republic of Ragusa, a maritime republic centered in Dubrovnik.
  5. A habitational surname from Italian.

Word forms

Ragusa Ragusas

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Ragusa, from Latin Ragusia. Probably from Proto-Albanian *rāguša (“grape”) (modern Albanian rrush)

Derived words

Ragusan
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