Name
The original pre-Roman name of the city Tergeste derives from the Venetic words terg- (market) and est- (place) is etymologically related with the Scandinavian torg(et), Old Church Slavonic tьrgъ, Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian trg / tržište meaning "market" and mesto / mjesto meaning "place", Romanian tirgu, and Albanian word treg, all meaning "market". Roman authors also transliterated the name as Tergestum. Modern names of the city include: Italian: Trieste, Slovene: Trst, German: Triest, Hungarian: Trieszt; Croatian: Trst, Serbian: Трст, Trst, and Greek: Τεργέστη, Tergeste.
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