Genoa
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From Latin Genua (influenced by Italian Genova), as the city was known by the ancient Ligurians. Probably from the Ancient Ligurian word for “knee”, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénw-eh₂ (“knee”), a thematic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu; in this sense “angle”, from its geographical position, thus akin to Geneva.
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Genoa
The pronunciations with the stress on the second syllable are considered nonstandard.
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Genoa (countable and uncountable, plural Genoas)
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