tarantella
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian tarantella, a diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola (“tarantula”), on the belief that the dance was variously a result of, or cure for, its bite).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌtɛɹənˈtɛlə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tæɹənˈtɛlə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛlə
Noun[edit]
tarantella (plural tarantellas)
- A rapid dance in 6/8 time, originating in Italy, or a piece of music for such a dance.
- 1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
- The set in which they found themselves was composed of English, and Amy was compelled to walk decorously through a cotillion, feeling all the while as if she could dance the tarantella with relish.
- 1895, Bret Harte, The Devotion of Enriquez:
- "A tarantella, I presume?" blandly suggested the doctor.
Miss Mannersley stopped, and rose carelessly from the piano. "It is a Moorish gypsy song of the fifteenth century," she said dryly.
- 1922, Walter Lippmann, “chapter v”, in Public Opinion:
- We learn to understand why our addled minds seize so little with precision, why they are caught up and tossed about in a kind of tarantella by headlines and catch-words, why so often they cannot tell things apart or discern identity in apparent differences.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
rapid dance
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See also[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Form of taranteli, folk-etymologically associated with etymology 2 (probably also by influence from English tarantula).
Noun[edit]
tarantella
- Alternative form of taranteli (“tarantula wolf spider, Lycosa tarantula”).
- (colloquial) Synonym of lintuhämähäkki.
Declension[edit]
Inflection of tarantella (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | tarantella | tarantellat | ||
genitive | tarantellan | tarantellojen | ||
partitive | tarantellaa | tarantelloja | ||
illative | tarantellaan | tarantelloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | tarantella | tarantellat | ||
accusative | nom. | tarantella | tarantellat | |
gen. | tarantellan | |||
genitive | tarantellan | tarantellojen tarantellainrare | ||
partitive | tarantellaa | tarantelloja | ||
inessive | tarantellassa | tarantelloissa | ||
elative | tarantellasta | tarantelloista | ||
illative | tarantellaan | tarantelloihin | ||
adessive | tarantellalla | tarantelloilla | ||
ablative | tarantellalta | tarantelloilta | ||
allative | tarantellalle | tarantelloille | ||
essive | tarantellana | tarantelloina | ||
translative | tarantellaksi | tarantelloiksi | ||
abessive | tarantellatta | tarantelloitta | ||
instructive | — | tarantelloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Etymology 2[edit]
From Italian tarantella.
Noun[edit]
tarantella
- tarantella (rapid dance of Italian origin)
Declension[edit]
Inflection of tarantella (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | tarantella | tarantellat | ||
genitive | tarantellan | tarantellojen | ||
partitive | tarantellaa | tarantelloja | ||
illative | tarantellaan | tarantelloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | tarantella | tarantellat | ||
accusative | nom. | tarantella | tarantellat | |
gen. | tarantellan | |||
genitive | tarantellan | tarantellojen tarantellainrare | ||
partitive | tarantellaa | tarantelloja | ||
inessive | tarantellassa | tarantelloissa | ||
elative | tarantellasta | tarantelloista | ||
illative | tarantellaan | tarantelloihin | ||
adessive | tarantellalla | tarantelloilla | ||
ablative | tarantellalta | tarantelloilta | ||
allative | tarantellalle | tarantelloille | ||
essive | tarantellana | tarantelloina | ||
translative | tarantellaksi | tarantelloiksi | ||
abessive | tarantellatta | tarantelloitta | ||
instructive | — | tarantelloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading[edit]
- “tarantella”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2024-01-01
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola (“tarantula”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tarantella f (plural tarantelle)
Anagrams[edit]
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