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Cantalupo in Sabina

Name: Cantalupo in Sabina
Address: IT

42.3000°N 12.6500°E · Q223480

One English word in this atlas traces back to Cantalupo in Sabina. It sits in Italy.

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cantaloupenoun · 18th century

Probable

The melon is named for a papal estate in the Sabine hills.

The fruit is usually linked to Cantalupo, a papal estate near Rome where the melon was grown after arriving from Armenia. The estate name, not the plant’s wild home, became the English word.

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