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Agrigento

ag·ri·gento

UK/ˌæɡɹɪˈd͡ʒɛntəʊ/ US/ˌæɡɹɪˈd͡ʒɛntoʊ/ uncommon

noun

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a town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast; the site of six Greek temples

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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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