Alghero

Meaning

Proper Noun

• city/and/port town in the province of Sassari (province) Sardinia (region) Italy (country).

Origin

• Borrowed from Italian Alghero, of unclear origin. Usually thought to derive from Medieval Latin Aleguerium or Sardinian S'Alighèra, from aliga + -era, but either way from Latin alga ("seaweed"), from Proto-Indo-European *alg-, *alǵ-.