Mike Tommasi wrote:

Steve's post made sense to me, but then I thought of the extensive
adoption by latin speakers of everything greek from language to gods.
The incursion of greek into latin was almost as extensive as that of
french into english...

Expecially when we're talking about wine.

Still, I remain sceptical of this etymology... and indeed the common
root with Po seems more plausible to me...

I checked around the term Polesine: it is used to indicate an island on the
river Po which has became attached, with time, to one of the banks. The
Valpolicella area doesn't seem to be of that origin. Moreover, the
explanation of Valpolicella name coming from a "great bend in the Adige
river" seems wrong to me both for the river (Adige is not Po) and for the
translation of Polesine into "great bend of a river".
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Vilco
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