This week’s theme
Words that sound dirty, but aren’t

This week’s words
pantheon
coliseum
palatine
rialto
lido

A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(re-AL-to)

MEANING:

noun:
1. A theatre district.
2. An exchange or marketplace.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Rialto, an island of Venice which was the commercial center of the city. The Rialto bridge was the first bridge on the Grand Canal.

USAGE:

"It was this... that made it some forty or fifty years ago the rialto of the West Indian islands."
Daily Chronicle; Sep 23, 1901.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: