See also: ballaré

Italian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin ballāre.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /balˈla.re/
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  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: bal‧là‧re

Verb

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ballàre (first-person singular present bàllo, first-person singular past historic ballài, past participle ballàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to dance
    Synonym: danzare
    Andiamo a ballare.Let's go dancing.
  2. (intransitive) to fidget
  3. (intransitive) to totter, to wobble, to shake
  4. (transitive) to dance, to perform (a dance)

Usage notes

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  • ballare often implies a more casual form of dancing than its synonym danzare.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • ? Neapolitan: ballare
  • Sardinian: ballare, ballai

References

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  • ballare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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ballāre

  1. present active infinitive of ballō (to dance)

Neapolitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin ballāre. The lack of fricativisation of initial /b/ to /v/ is irregular but not unprecedented, compare buono, bello.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ballare

  1. to dance

Conjugation

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This verb needs an inflection-table template.

References

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 755: “danzare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “ballare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

Sardinian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian ballare, from Late Latin ballāre. The Campidanese variant baddai represents the native holdout in a sea of Italianisms.

Verb

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ballare (Logudorese, Nuorese, Limba Sarda Comuna)

  1. to dance

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References

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 755: “danzare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “ballare”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Swedish

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Adjective

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ballare

  1. comparative degree of ball

Adverb

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ballare

  1. comparative degree of ballt
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