Word of the Day – Malebolge

Malebolge (noun) (literary)

mal-eh-bolj

A pool of filth; a hellish place or condition.

Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Alexander Beresford-Hope (1820–1887), politician and author. From Italian Malebolge, the name given by Dante ( Inferno xviii) to the eighth circle of Hell, consisting of ten rock-bound concentric circular valleys, plural of malebolgia from malo evil (from classical Latin malus: see mal-) + bolgia valley, bag.

Example sentences

“Save me from this hellish malebolge”