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Ghetto

3 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a part of a city where a minority group lives, often due to social or economic pressure
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Stage 1 of 3
borghetto
Italian · medieval
"a confined urban quarter"
possibly "little town" or a foundry district where Venice confined Jewish residents
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Stage 2 of 3
ghetto
Italian · 1500s
"a segregated urban quarter"
named the segregated Jewish quarter of Venice
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Stage 3 of 3
ghetto
English · 1600s-1900s
"an area occupied by a minority group, often by force"
adopted directly from Italian, later broadened to any segregated area
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