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Ajaccio

/a.ʒak.sjo/

proper noun/a.ʒak.sjo/

Ajaccio (the capital and largest city of Corsica, France)

Related: Ajaccien, ajaccien

Borrowed from Italian Ajaccio, from Corsican Aiacciu, Old Italian Addiazzo, corresponding to Medieval Latin Adiacium; possibly from Tuscan Italian agghiacciu (“sheep pen”), or from a derivative of Byzantine Greek ἀγαθός (agathós, “good fortune, mooring”); related to Agde.