ghetto

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source language is uncertain. Compare Italian ghetto. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɛ.təʊ/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɛ.toʊ/, [ˈɡɛɾoʊ̯] Rhymes: -ɛtəʊ Hyphenation: ghet‧to === Noun === ghetto (plural ghettos or ghettoes or ghetti) An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto. An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:slum For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto. An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto. (figurative, sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest. Synonym: ivory tower 2016 January 10, Quentin Tarantino, 73rd Golden Globe Awards Ennio Morricone... is my favourite composer - and when I say favourite composer, I don't mean movie composer - that ghetto. I'm talking about Mozart, I'm talking about Beethoven, I'm talking about Schubert. That's who I'm talking about. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === ghetto (comparative more ghetto, superlative most ghetto) Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general. (slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude. (US, informal, often derogatory or offensive) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States. Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States. ==== Derived terms ==== boughetto nonghetto ==== Translations ==== === Verb === ghetto (third-person singular simple present ghettoes, present participle ghettoing, simple past and past participle ghettoed) (transitive) To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto. ==== Translations ==== === References === == Czech == === Etymology === Borrowed from Italian ghetto. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɡɛto] Hyphenation: ghe‧t‧to === Noun === ghetto n ghetto (the district in a city where Jews were compelled to confine themselves) ==== Declension ==== == Dutch == === Noun === ghetto n (plural ghetto's, diminutive ghettootje n) nonstandard spelling of getto == Finnish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡetːo/, [ˈɡe̞t̪ːo̞] Rhymes: -etːo === Noun === ghetto alternative spelling of getto ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “ghetto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[13] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023 === Anagrams === ghetot == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Italian ghetto. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡɛ.to/ ~ /ɡe.to/ === Noun === ghetto m (plural ghettos or ghetti) ghetto ==== Derived terms ==== ghettoïsation ghettoïser ghettoïque === Further reading === “ghetto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Indonesian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Italian ghetto, from Venetan ghèto (“foundry”). === Noun === ghetto ghetto === Further reading === “ghetto”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Italian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Venetan ghèto (“foundry”). Alternatively a clipping of borghetto, diminutive of borgo (“village”). Initially used of the areas Jews were concentrated, later extended to concentrations of other ethnicities and then non-ethnic groups. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡet.to/ Rhymes: -etto Hyphenation: ghét‧to === Noun === ghetto m (plural ghetti) ghetto ==== Derived terms ==== ghettizzare ==== Descendants ==== → English: ghetto → French: ghetto → Norwegian Bokmål: ghetto, getto → Spanish: gueto === Further reading === ghetto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana == Portuguese == === Noun === ghetto m (plural ghettos) alternative spelling of gueto == Swedish == === Alternative forms === getto === Etymology === From Italian ghetto. === Noun === ghetto n ghetto ==== Usage notes ==== Style guides recommend the variant spelling getto over ghetto. ==== Declension ==== === References === “ghetto”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “ghetto”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)