pizzica

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Italian pizzica.

Noun[edit]

pizzica

  1. (dance) A popular traditional dance of Italy, originating on the Salento peninsula.
    • 2007 January 19, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      With strings, accordion, flute and lots of tambourine, it pays particular attention to the pizzica, a galloping six-beat dance related to the tarantella and long used as a faith-healing cure for spider bites.

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Italian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

pizzica f (plural pizziche)

  1. (dance) pizzica
Descendants[edit]
  • → English: pizzica
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Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

pizzica

  1. inflection of pizzicare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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