Judecca

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  1. 1
    A zone in Dante's Inferno reserved to the traitors to masters and benefactors, named after Judas Iscariot

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Giudecca, from giudecca (“Jewish ghetto”), from Medieval Latin iudeca, from Latin iūdaica, feminine form of iūdaicus (“Judaic, Jewish”), ultimately from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá, “Judah, Judas”). Doublet of Judaica and Giudecca.

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