Padova

Pàdova Italian Etymology Ultimately from it la Patavium, which may have had a variant it la-vul - form *Patava/*Pataua, later monophthongized to vec Padoa in the local Venetan language, and transcribed as la Padua in Medieval Latin; this then became it Padova in the Tuscan dialect (and hence later Italian) after labialization of the 'u'. Pronunciation Pàdova<audio:It-Padova.ogg> Proper noun f it city/and/province r/Veneto c/Italy Padua the letter P in the Italian spelling alphabet it Palermo Derived terms it padovano Further reading it Anagrams it aadopv dopava