Avellino

name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in Campania, in southern Italy.
  2. 2
    A province of Campania, Italy, around the city.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Avellino, from Latin Abellinum, from Abella + -inum (equivalent to Avella + -ino). From Proto-Italic *abelnā (“apple-bearing”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl (“apple, apple-tree”).

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