tarantella
English
Etymology
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
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Audio (US): (file)
Noun
tarantella (plural tarantellas)
- A rapid dance in 6/8 time, originating in Italy, or a piece of music for such a dance.
- 1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women ch. 37
- 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, Public Opinion ch. v
- 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.
- 1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women ch. 37
Related terms
Translations
rapid dance
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See also
Finnish
Noun
tarantella
Declension
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 tarantellain rare | |
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. |
Synonyms
Italian
Etymology
Diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola (“tarantula”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tarantella f (plural tarantelle)
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