Grottaferrata
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Italian
Etymology
From the name of the 11th-century Italo-Greek monastery Abbazia di Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, calque of Latin Abbatia Beatissimae Mariae Cryptaeferratae, a compound of crypta (“crypt”) + ferrata (“ironbound”), from the double iron bars over the windows of an early oratorio at the site, formerly a Roman tomb.
Proper noun
Grottaferrata f
- A town in Roma, Lazio, Italy, near the site of ancient Tusculum
- the nearby abbey, once famed for frescos by Domenichino and for its Renaissance fortifications
- (Roman Catholicism) the monastic order of the abbey, which long preserved certain Greek Orthodox rites