bagatelle

See also Bagatelle

English

Etymology

From French bagatelle, from Italian bagattella.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌbæɡəˈtɛl/, SAMPA: /%b{g@"tEl/

Noun

bagatelle (plural bagatelles)

1. A trifle; an unsubstantial thing.
2. A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character; Beethoven composed several for the piano.
3. A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
4. Any of several smaller, wooden table top games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins; also called pin bagatelle, hit-a-pin bagatelle, jaw ball.

Translations

trifle

Bulgarian: дреболия (bg) Catalan: bagatel·la (ca) f. Dutch: kleinigheid (nl), onbenulligheid (nl) Finnish: pikkuseikka (fi) German: Bagatelle (de) f., Kleinigkeit f., Nichtigkeit f., Geringfügigkeit f., Belanglosigkeit f., Unwichtigkeit f.

Italian: baggianata f., inezia f., minuzia f., pagliuzza, banalità f., nonnulla m., pinzillacchera f., bazzeccola f., quisquilia f., sciocchezza f., cosina f. Spanish: bagatela f. Swedish: bagatell (sv) c., småsak (sv) c., struntsak (sv) c., petitess (sv) c.

literature or music

Finnish: bagatelli (fi)

Spanish: bagatela f.

game

Finnish: bagatelle (fi)

Spanish: billar romano m.

pin bagatelle

Finnish: fortuna (fi)

See also

• carom
• pachinko
• pinball

External links

• bagatelle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• bagatelle in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• bagatelle at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Italian

Noun

bagatelle f.

1. Plural form of bagatella.