fondaco

From Italian fondaco (“trading factory, warehouse, trading post”), from Arabic فُنْدُق (funduq, “inn, hotel; manor”) under influence from Medieval Latin fundicus (“warehouse, trading factory, trading post”), from Ancient Greek πανδοκεῖον (pandokeîon), from πᾰν- (păn-, “all, every”) + the combining form of δέχεσθαι (dékhesthai, “to receive”) + -εῖον (-eîon, “-ium: forming building names”). Doublet of fonda and fonduk.

fondaco (plural fondachi or fondacos)

1. (historical) A trading factory, trading post, or colony operated by the Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and the early modern period, chiefly around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
   • 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, published 2008, page 32:

     Genoese and Venetian fondachi (trading depots) littered the coastline from North Africa to the Crimea.

2. (historical) An inn or hotel in medieval or early modern Italy or its colonies, particularly at the residence of an established merchant.

• See Thesaurus:lodging place

From Arabic فُنْدُق (funduq, “inn, hotel; manor”) under influence from Medieval Latin fundicus (“warehouse, trading factory, trading post”), from Ancient Greek πανδοκεῖον (pandokeîon, “inn, place receiving anyone”). Cognate with Sicilian fùnnicu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfon.da.ko/
• Rhymes: -ondako
• Hyphenation: fón‧da‧co

fondaco m (plural fondachi or (uncommon) fondaci)

1. trading factory, warehouse

• English: fondaco
• Romanian: fondaco

• cofonda, facondo

Borrowed from Italian fondaco.

fondaco n (plural fondacouri)

1. fondaco

• fondaco in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN