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Grottaferrata
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Italian
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Etymology
From the name of the 11th-century Italo-Greek monastery Abbazia di Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, it la Abbatia Beatissimae Mariae Cryptaeferratae 1, a compound of la crypta crypt + la ferrata ironbound, from the double iron bars over the windows of an early oratorio at the site, formerly a Roman tomb.
Proper noun
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it town p/Roma r/Lazio c/Italy, near the site of ancient Tusculum
the nearby abbey, once famed for frescos by Domenichino and for its Renaissance fortifications
it Roman Catholicism the monastic order of the abbey, which long preserved certain Greek Orthodox rites
Derived terms
it grottaferratesi
it ellipses