Gli antichi prati della Bassa di Limena. Escursione storico-toponomastica

The paper considers the area, once an entirely agricultural one and now partly industrialized, which is placed, between the rivers Brenta and Brentella, just on the border between Padua and Limena and is crossed by two streets, falling each in a different municipal territory, respectively called Proìmboe and Praìmbole, both toponyms being traditional but of unknown origin. Going through cartographic, archive and historical records concerning the area, from the 15th c. up to nowadays, its ancient marshy nature and the delicate hydraulic balance eventually reached are sketched, and many other variants of the toponym are noticed. The analysis of morphological structure and phonetic evolution processes of all those variants finally leads to the proposal of a unitary etymology, which considers them as alternate outcomes of a compound like prata (terrae) imulae, well fitting the original environment situation of the area.