battuta

Italian battuta

battuta

1. (music) beat

• a battuta (“return to a strict beat”)

From battuto.

• IPA^(key): /batˈtu.ta/
• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: bat‧tù‧ta

battuta f (plural battute)

1. witty remark, joke

   Synonyms: spiritosaggine, freddura, barzelletta, storiella, arguzia, facezia, scherzo, lepidezza, frizzo, lazzo

   fare una battuta ― to crack a joke

   battuta finale ― punchline

2. hit, blow

   Synonyms: botta, colpo, colpita, percossa, picchiata, bastonatura, bastonata, pestaggio, pestata, tritata, schiacciata, legnata, randellata, manganellata

3. (by extension) mark left by a hit or a blow; bruise

   Synonyms: segno, livido, contusione, ecchimosi

4. flap (of a bird wing)
5. stroke (movement of an oar through water)
6. splash of a river on the bank
7. point or line at which two window shutters meet
8. (music) bar
9. (theater) cue
10. (hunting) beat, beating
11. (figurative, by extension) organized police action to hunt down a criminal; patrolling; scouring

    Synonyms: pattugliamento, perlustrazione, rastrellamento, ricognizione

12. (sports) service

    Synonyms: rimessa, tiro, calcio

13. (sports, cricket, baseball) batting

    Synonym: rilancio

14. (typing) character

    Synonyms: carattere, lettera, spazio

• → English: battuta
• → French: batoude
  • → Russian: батут (batut), бату́д (batúd)
    • → Estonian: batuut
    • → Lithuanian: batutas
• → Norwegian Bokmål: battuta
• → Portuguese: batuta

battuta

1. feminine singular of battuto

• buttata

From Italian battuta (“remark, hit, blow, bar”), from battuto (“beaten, struck”), past participle of battere (“to beat, hit; strike”), from Late Latin battere (“to beat, hit”), a variant of Latin battuere (“to beat, hit”), present active infinitive of battuō (“I beat, hit”), from Gaulish, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to stab, dig”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbatːʉta/

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• Rhymes: -ʉta
• Hyphenation: bat‧tu‧ta

battuta

1. Only used in a battuta (“a battuta”)