borgatan.

Brit.

/bɔːˈɡɑːtə/, U.S.

/bɔrˈɡɑdə/

Inflections: Plural borgatas, borgate.

Forms: 1900s– borgata, 1900s– brugad.

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian borgata.

Etymology: < Italian borgata village (13th cent.), suburban working-class area in Rome (a1956; earlier in the names of such areas) < borgo small centre of habitation (1348–53 in Boccaccio; < classical Latin burgus castle, fort (late 2nd cent. a.d. in inscriptions), of disputed etymology; ultimately cognate with borough n.; compare ancient Greek πύργος tower) + -ata -ate suffix².In form brugad representing Italian regional pronunciation of borgata. In plural form borgate after the Italian plural form.

1. In Italy: a district of improvised or poor quality residential housing, typically located on the outskirts of a city; a slum.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > slum(s)

rookery1824

slum1825

slumdom1882

warren1884

slummery1892

slumland1893

barrack yard1903

tenement yard1914

borgata1929

string slum1939

squatter camp1956

favela1961

1929 Geogr. Rev. 19 555 The population which is establishing itself permanently in the Campagna is being recruited for the most part..from among the inhabitants of Rome, in the new borgate and other centers of colonization nearest the city.

1958 H. Cantril Politics of Despair iv. 67 The inhabitants of the borgata were asked, ‘What illness most troubles you?’

1977 New Yorker 2 May 102/2 Some seventy borgate around Rome are still not recognized on the city plan.

1985 New Yorker 22 July 67 The Don Bosco is a typical postwar Roman borgata—a hastily constructed residential quarter of dreary, slablike apartment buildings.

1993 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 7 Mar. 5 c Pasolini, 53, was one of Italy's most prominent intellectuals, a middle-class Marxist who celebrated the poor, the boys of the ‘borgata’.

2. U.S. An organized branch of the Mafia; a Mafia family.

ΚΠ

1963 Organized Crime & Illicit Traffic in Narcotics (U.S. Senate Comm. on Govt. Operations, 88th Congr. 1 Sess.) i. 81 I was with Vito Genovese, that is the family, or our borgata, in Italian.

1970 in H. A. Ziegler Sam the Plumber 52 Who the hell are you to take over a borgata (Family)?

1990 Time 3 Sept. 54/2 These are difficult times for the 25 families, or ‘brugads’, that make up America's Cosa Nostra.

2001 Las Vegas Mercury (Electronic ed.) 9 Mar. They almost got killed by a rival brugad, the toughest mob in the history of Las Vegas.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	borgata
释义	borgatan. Brit. /bɔːˈɡɑːtə/, U.S. /bɔrˈɡɑdə/ Inflections: Plural borgatas, borgate. Forms: 1900s– borgata, 1900s– brugad. Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian borgata. Etymology: < Italian borgata village (13th cent.), suburban working-class area in Rome (a1956; earlier in the names of such areas) < borgo small centre of habitation (1348–53 in Boccaccio; < classical Latin burgus castle, fort (late 2nd cent. a.d. in inscriptions), of disputed etymology; ultimately cognate with borough n.; compare ancient Greek πύργος tower) + -ata -ate suffix².In form brugad representing Italian regional pronunciation of borgata. In plural form borgate after the Italian plural form. 1. In Italy: a district of improvised or poor quality residential housing, typically located on the outskirts of a city; a slum. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > slum(s) rookery1824 slum1825 slumdom1882 warren1884 slummery1892 slumland1893 barrack yard1903 tenement yard1914 borgata1929 string slum1939 squatter camp1956 favela1961 1929 Geogr. Rev. 19 555 The population which is establishing itself permanently in the Campagna is being recruited for the most part..from among the inhabitants of Rome, in the new borgate and other centers of colonization nearest the city. 1958 H. Cantril Politics of Despair iv. 67 The inhabitants of the borgata were asked, ‘What illness most troubles you?’ 1977 New Yorker 2 May 102/2 Some seventy borgate around Rome are still not recognized on the city plan. 1985 New Yorker 22 July 67 The Don Bosco is a typical postwar Roman borgata—a hastily constructed residential quarter of dreary, slablike apartment buildings. 1993 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 7 Mar. 5 c Pasolini, 53, was one of Italy's most prominent intellectuals, a middle-class Marxist who celebrated the poor, the boys of the ‘borgata’. 2. U.S. An organized branch of the Mafia; a Mafia family. ΚΠ 1963 Organized Crime & Illicit Traffic in Narcotics (U.S. Senate Comm. on Govt. Operations, 88th Congr. 1 Sess.) i. 81 I was with Vito Genovese, that is the family, or our borgata, in Italian. 1970 in H. A. Ziegler Sam the Plumber 52 Who the hell are you to take over a borgata (Family)? 1990 Time 3 Sept. 54/2 These are difficult times for the 25 families, or ‘brugads’, that make up America's Cosa Nostra. 2001 Las Vegas Mercury (Electronic ed.) 9 Mar. They almost got killed by a rival brugad, the toughest mob in the history of Las Vegas. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1929
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