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Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian ghetto.
Pronunciation
Noun
geto (accusative singular geton, plural getoj, accusative plural getojn)
- ghetto (walled area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force)
1908, La Revuo: internacia monata literatura gazeto, page 491:
1967, The Worker Esperantist:... la Poloj mam okazis nur kiam la sonoj de rusaj kanonoj povis esti aŭdataj en Varsovio pli ol unu jaron post la geto leviĝo.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2007, Lidia : życie Lidii Zamenhof, Vlaamse Esperantobond v.z.w., →ISBN:Tie, en la Varsovia Geto, ene de areo de ĉirkaŭ cent urbaj blokoj, duonmiliono da homoj estis enprizonigata, la varsoviaj judoj kune kun rifuĝintoj kaj deportitoj el aliaj partoj de Pollando kaj kelkaj el aliaj partoj de Eŭropo.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2013, Jorge Camacho, Probal Dasgupta, Istvan Ertl, Beletra Almanako 16 (Ba16 - Literaturo En Esperanto), Mondial, →ISBN, page 50:
See also
Ladino
Noun
geto m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling גיטו)
- ghetto
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
Noun
gèto m
- genitive singular of getas
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Venetan ghèto (“foundry”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡêto/
- Hyphenation: ge‧to
Noun
gȅto m (Cyrillic spelling ге̏то)
- ghetto
Declension