bordello

From Italian bordello. Unrelated to brothel.

• Rhymes: -ɛləʊ

bordello (plural bordellos)

1. A brothel

• door-bell, doorbell

From Old French bordel (“small hut, cabin; brothel”), diminutive of bord, from Medieval Latin bordellum, from Frankish *bord (“board”), from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥dʰ-o- (“board”), suffixed zero-grade form of *bʰer-edʰ- (“to cut”), suffixed form of *bʰer- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”).

• Rhymes: -ɛllo

bordello m (plural bordelli)

1. brothel
2. great chaos or confusion
3. a large quantity

bordellō

1. dative singular of bordellum
2. ablative singular of bordellum