ballare

Inherited from Late Latin ballāre.

• IPA^(key): /balˈla.re/

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• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: bal‧là‧re

ballàre (first-person singular present bàllo, first-person singular past historic ballài, past participle ballàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (intransitive) to dance

   Synonym: danzare

   Andiamo a ballare. ― Let's go dancing.

2. (intransitive) to fidget
3. (intransitive) to totter, to wobble, to shake
4. (transitive) to dance, to perform (a dance)

• ballare often implies a more casual form of dancing than its synonym danzare.

• traballare

• →? Neapolitan: ballare
• → Sardinian: ballare, ballai

• ballare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Barella, ballerà, barella

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /balˈlaː.re/, [bälˈlʲäːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /balˈla.re/, [bälˈläːre]

ballāre

1. present active infinitive of ballō (“to dance”)

• abballare
• ballà, abballà (alt. spellings)

Inherited from Late Latin ballāre. The lack of fricativisation of initial /b/ to /v/ is irregular but not unprecedented, compare buono, bello.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [balˈla]

ballare

1. to dance

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 755: “danzare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “ballare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

• ballai (Campidanese)
  • baddai (rural; indigenous form of the word)

Borrowed from Italian ballare, from Late Latin ballāre. The Campidanese variant baddai represents the native holdout in a sea of Italianisms.

ballare (Logudorese, Nuorese, Limba Sarda Comuna)

1. to dance

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 755: “danzare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “ballare”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

ballare

1. comparative degree of ball

ballare

1. comparative degree of ballt