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Judecca

Judecca proper noun: a zone in Dante's Inferno reserved to the traitors to masters and benefactors, named after Judas Iscariot.

Proper noun

Judecca or the Judecca

  1. A zone in Dante's Inferno reserved to the traitors to masters and benefactors, named after Judas Iscariot
    • The Judecca, or Last Circlet of Cocytus, takes its name from Judas Iscariot, and contains the souls of those ‘who betrayed their masters and benefactors.’ […] Dante […] is carried through the Centre by his Mystic Guide—“grappling on the hair of Satan,” not without significance; and set down on “the...1849, John A[itken] Carlyle, “[Canto XXXIV.] Argument.”, in Dante’s Divine Comedy: The Inferno. A Literal Prose Translation, […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 411

Origin of Judecca

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.

Words that rhyme with Judecca

Questions about Judecca

What does Judecca mean?
Judecca means a zone in Dante's Inferno reserved to the traitors to masters and benefactors, named after Judas Iscariot.
What part of speech is Judecca?
Judecca is a proper noun.

Words near Judecca in the dictionary

  1. Judea
  2. Judea and Samaria
  3. Judean
  4. Judean Aramaic
  5. Judeans
  6. Judecca
  7. Judenhetze
  8. Judenhetzen
  9. Judenrat
  10. judenrein
  11. Judenstern

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