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nicolep wrote: 16 Sep 2018, 21:37
Thank you for this. I was really struggling with "civico spedale nel quale" for some reason.
I think it was spedale that threw me off as that isn't a translation I know for "hospital" but I suppose it could have just been miswritten. Or an old translation.
Hi Nicole
Spedale would have been correct at the time. It is an archaic spelling for ospedale. Sometimes you also see similar versions of the word when dialect creeps. In Sicilian records I've occasionally seen spitali, which is the Sicilian word for hospital.
That definitely makes sense and confirmed my suspicion. So very helpful!
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