baluginare
Italian
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from ba- + luce (“light”) + -ino + -are.[1] The voicing of -c- is common in Tuscan (compare fagiolo, piagente, brage). The prefix ba(r)- would be a dialectal variant of bis-, here in the sense of “imperfectly” (compare barlume (“glimmer”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.lu.d͡ʒiˈna.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: ba‧lu‧gi‧nà‧re
Verb
baluginàre (first-person singular present balùgino, first-person singular past historic baluginài, past participle baluginàto, auxiliary èssere) (originally dialectal)[1]
- (intransitive, usually) to flash or flicker (appear ad disappear rapidly) (of light)
- Synonyms: balenare, guizzare, lampeggiare, scintillare
- (figurative, intransitive) to come to mind suddenly, and sometimes unclearly [+ a (object)]
- Synonyms: balenare, lampeggiare, presentarsi all'improvviso
- Gli baluginò una strana idea.
- A strange idea came to his mind.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- baluginio, baluginamento
- sbaluginare
- abbaluginare
- (unlikely) balenare
References
- Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “baluginare”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
Further reading
- baluginare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- baluginare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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