Tarantella

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Quotations 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 See also 2 Finnish 2.1 Noun 3 Italian 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Noun

English

Etymology

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

• (US) IPA: /ˌtɛrənˈtɛlə/
• (RP) IPA: /tærən'tɛlə/
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Noun

Tarantella (plural Tarantellas)

1. A rapid dance in 6/8 time, originating in Italy, or a piece of music for such a dance.

Quotations

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• 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.

Related terms

• tarantism

Translations

French: tarentelle f. Italian: tarantella

Russian: тарантелла f.

See also

• tarantula

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Finnish

Noun

tarantella

1. a tarantula

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Italian

Etymology

Diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola ‘tarantula’).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /taran'tɛl:a/

Noun

tarantella f

1. tarantellaio:tarantella

fi:tarantella