ballet
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“group dance”), from Late Latin ballō (“to dance”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) enPR: bă-lāʹ, băʹlā('), IPA(key): /bælˈeɪ/, /ˈbæl(ˌ)eɪ/
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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbal.eɪ/, /ˈbal.ɪ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /bælˈæɪ/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /bɛlˈæɪ/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /bɐleː/, /bɐlɪː/
- Rhymes: -æleɪ, -æli, -eɪ
- Hyphenation: bal‧let
Noun edit
ballet (countable and uncountable, plural ballets)
- A classical form of dance.
- a classically-trained ballet dancer
- A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
- Let's go to the ballet in the theatre tomorrow!
- The company of persons who perform this dance.
- Zara joined the ballet at the age of 14.
- (music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.
- (heraldry, uncommon) A (small) ball i.e. roundel on a coat of arms, called a bezant, plate, etc., according to colour.
- 1741, Richard Izacke, Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter [...] by Richard Izacke [...] Second Edition:
- 9. Peter West, Ar. bears sable Ballets argent a Lyon Rampant.
- (figurative) Any intricate series of operations involving coordination between individuals.
- 1990, Historic Preservation: Quarterly of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings, volumes 42-43:
- Food preparation on a potager no doubt became a kitchen ballet in which pans were constantly shifted, coals constantly replenished, and grates shaken out.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
- Henry Payton joined Alan on the sidelines during the conclusion of the oddly delicate ballet known as On-Scene Investigation.
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Verb edit
ballet (third-person singular simple present ballets, present participle balleting, simple past and past participle balleted)
- To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.
- 2014 Rutherford's Vascular Surgery E-Book - Page 1340
- Situations that typically require longer iliac limbs than the measurements suggest include extreme iliac tortuosity, “balleting” of the limbs (Endurant and Excluder) (Fig. 90-3), and the need to extend to the external iliac arteries. It these anatomic circumstances, it is prudent to choose a longer length when in doubt.
- 2016, Jacob Russell Dring, Endless the Chase:
- Unfortunately, he could only sustain so much abuse. Footfalls approached. Kanoa's lips smacked and his jaw hung open. His eyelids fluttered, their underlying gaze balleting without clarity. He felt beyond sick, and his world spun immensely. A garbled voice of incoherency seemed to be his only link to this realm of consciousness.
- 2017, Num Nums, “A Total Bust a Move”, in The ZhuZhus:
- Frankie's obviously going to ballet her way to the trophy.
- 2014 Rutherford's Vascular Surgery E-Book - Page 1340
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Noun edit
ballet m (plural ballets)
Further reading edit
- “ballet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “ballet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “ballet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “ballet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chavacano edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English ballet, from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“ball”).
Noun edit
ballet
- ballet (dance tradition and style)
Cimbrian edit
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ballet
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Either from French ballet or directly from Italian balletto, the diminutive form of ballo (“dance, ball”).
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Noun edit
ballet c (singular definite balletten, plural indefinite balletter)
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common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ballet | balletten | balletter | balletterne |
genitive | ballets | ballettens | balletters | balletternes |
Descendants edit
- → Greenlandic: balletti
Further reading edit
- “ballet” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ballet, from Middle French ballet, from Italian balletto.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ballet n (plural balletten, diminutive balletje n)
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian balletto.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ballet m (plural ballets)
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Further reading edit
- “ballet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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ballet
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbal.let/, [ˈbälːʲɛt̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbal.let/, [ˈbälːet̪]
Verb edit
ballet
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of ballō (“to dance”)
Northern Sami edit
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ballet
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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ballet n
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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ballet n
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French ballet.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ballet m (countable and uncountable, plural ballets)
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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Further reading edit
- “ballet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014