pallavolo
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Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Univerbation of palla + a + volo, literally “ball on flight”.
The pronunciation with -vv-, though usually proscribed, is very common, as it respects the syntactic gemination of a.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpal.laˈvo.lo/, /ˌpal.lavˈvo.lo/[1][2]
- Rhymes: -olo
- Hyphenation: pal‧la‧vó‧lo
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Noun
pallavolo f (uncountable)
- volleyball (a game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net)
Derived terms
References
- ^ pallavolo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- ^ pallavolo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)