Agrigento
//ˌæɡɹɪˈd͡ʒɛntoʊ// name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A province of Sicily, Italy.
- 2 The capital city of Agrigento.
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Borrowed from Italian Agrigento, from Latin Agrigentum, possibly from the root words ager (“field”) and gēns (“clan, kin”), but more likely to be a corruption of Ancient Greek Ἀκράγᾰντᾰ (Akrágăntă), accusative of Ἀκράγᾱς (Akrágās), from ἄκρος (ákros, “at the edge”).
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