baluginare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Verb
[edit]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 [with a]
- Synonyms: balenare, lampeggiare, presentarsi all'improvviso
- Gli baluginò una strana idea.
- A strange idea came to his mind.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of baluginàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]- baluginio, baluginamento
- sbaluginare
- abbaluginare
- (unlikely) balenare
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “baluginare”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
Further reading
[edit]- baluginare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- baluginare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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