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ugonotto

Huguenot

noun oo-goh-NOHT-toh Rare

Origin: French huguenot, origin disputed — possibly from German Eidgenoss (confederate)

Usage Note

Ugonotto refers to French Protestants of the 16th–17th centuries, particularly those persecuted after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). The word is almost exclusively historical. The feminine is ugonotta; plural ugonotti/ugonotte.

Examples

"Molti ugonotti fuggirono in Olanda dopo il 1685."

Natural Translation

Many Huguenots fled to Holland after 1685.

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