bordello
bor·dello
noun
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Origin
From Italian bordello. Distantly related to brothel, through Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”). Doublet of bordel. By surface analysis, Latin borda + Italian -ello (“diminutive”).
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