battaglia

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /batˈtaʎ.ʎa/
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  • Rhymes: -aʎʎa
  • Hyphenation: bat‧tà‧glia

Etymology 1

From Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia, from Latin battuō.

Noun

battaglia f (plural battaglie)

  1. (military) battle
  2. (by extension) fight
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Istriot: batalgia
  • Maltese: battalja
  • Polish: batalia
  • Romanian: bătălie (via Greek)
  • Russian: бата́лия (batálija) (or from French)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

battaglia

  1. inflection of battagliare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • battaglia in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • battaglia in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • battaglia in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • battaglia in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • battàglia in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • battàglia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana