fondaco
nounEtymology Borrowed from Italian fondaco. Doublet of fonda and fonduk.
1
Historical A trading factory, trading post, or colony operated by the Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and the early modern period, chiefly around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
- Genoese and Venetian fondachi (trading depots) littered the coastline from North Africa to the Crimea.2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, published 2008, page 32:
2
Historical An inn or hotel in medieval or early modern Italy or its colonies, particularly at the residence of an established merchant.
- Hypernyms
- lodging place