baluginare

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Italian

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Perhaps from ba- +‎ luce (light) +‎ -ino +‎ -are.[1] The voicing of -c- is common in Tuscan (compare fagiolo, piagente, brage). The prefix ba(r)- would be a dialectal variant of bis-, here in the sense of imperfectly (compare barlume (glimmer)).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ba.lu.d͡ʒiˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ba‧lu‧gi‧nà‧re

Verb

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baluginàre (first-person singular present balùgino, first-person singular past historic baluginài, past participle baluginàto, auxiliary èssere) (originally dialectal)[1]

  1. (intransitive, usually) to flash or flicker (appear ad disappear rapidly) (of light)
    Synonyms: balenare, guizzare, lampeggiare, scintillare
  2. (figurative, intransitive) to come to mind suddenly, and sometimes unclearly [with a]
    Synonyms: balenare, lampeggiare, presentarsi all'improvviso
    Gli baluginò una strana idea.
    A strange idea came to his mind.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “baluginare”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati

Further reading

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  • baluginare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • baluginare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

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