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Italian
Etymology
From borgo + -ese < Late Latin burgus, or through burgensis. Compare French bourgeois, Spanish burgués, English burgess.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /borˈɡe.ze/, (traditional) /borˈɡe.se/[1]
- Rhymes: -eze, (traditional) -ese
- Hyphenation: bor‧ghé‧se
Adjective
borghese (plural borghesi, superlative borghesissimo)
- middle-class, bourgeois
- civilian
- Synonym: civile
- in borghese ― civilian clothes/plain clothes
Noun
borghese m or f by sense (plural borghesi)
- middle-class person, bourgeois
- civilian
- Synonym: civile
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Further reading
- borghese in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- borghese in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- borghese in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- borghese in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- borghese in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- borghese in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana