gazzetta

noun

variants or gazet

plural gazzettas or gazets

: a small Venetian copper coin of the 16th and 17th centuries

Word History

Etymology

Italian gazzetta, from Venetian dialect gazeta, perhaps diminutive of gaza magpie, from Latin Gaja, a name for women

First Known Use

1607, in the meaning defined above

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