From slap + stick, calque of Italian batacchio. The pair of sticks was used by the comic character Harlequin in the commedia dell'arte.
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slapstick (countable and uncountable, plural slapsticks)
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Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.
slapstick
Inflection of slapstick (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | slapstick | slapstickit | |
genitive | slapstickin | slapstickien | |
partitive | slapstickiä | slapstickejä | |
illative | slapstickiin | slapstickeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | slapstick | slapstickit | |
accusative | nom. | slapstick | slapstickit |
gen. | slapstickin | ||
genitive | slapstickin | slapstickien | |
partitive | slapstickiä | slapstickejä | |
inessive | slapstickissä | slapstickeissä | |
elative | slapstickistä | slapstickeistä | |
illative | slapstickiin | slapstickeihin | |
adessive | slapstickillä | slapstickeillä | |
ablative | slapstickiltä | slapstickeiltä | |
allative | slapstickille | slapstickeille | |
essive | slapstickinä | slapstickeinä | |
translative | slapstickiksi | slapstickeiksi | |
abessive | slapstickittä | slapstickeittä | |
instructive | — | slapstickein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.
slapstick m inan
singular | plural | |
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nominative | slapstick | slapsticki |
genitive | slapsticku | slapsticków |
dative | slapstickowi | slapstickom |
accusative | slapstick | slapsticki |
instrumental | slapstickiem | slapstickami |
locative | slapsticku | slapstickach |
vocative | slapsticku | slapsticki |
Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.
slapstick m (uncountable)
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.