Bacoli.
a coastal town in Naples, Campania
Meaning & usage
a coastal town in Naples, Campania
Where this word comes from
Even though some souces says that it comes from Latin Bauli, many scholars argue it actually comes from Medieval Latin Bacula/Vacula, an alteration of Latin adjective vacuus + diminutive suffix -ulus, from an expression terra vacua. Compare the Cilentan word sbàculu, originating from the same Latin word. The alteration of V to B comes from the local betacism phenomenon. This hypothesis originates from studying medieval and XVIII century legal sources, always using the form Bacula. The other form Bacoli might have originate as a way of giving prestige to the name by making it more similar to the Latin one.
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