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Real curios are DIMS that have preserved their ending but shed most of their base, like cello (a shortening of violoncello) and ghetto (probably from Italian borghetto ` little borough ').
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Though its etymology is uncertain, ghetto is likely derived from either borghetto (”little borough”) or geto (”foundry”) in Venetain dialect which originally described the city’s foundry district, an islet that became gated and guarded when “The Council of Ten” decreed that all Jews reside there from 1516 until 1797 when Napoleon emancipated them.
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