cabaletta

An Italian variant of coboletta, diminutive of cobola (“stanza, couplet”), from Old Occitan cobla, from Latin copula. Doublet of couplet.

• IPA^(key): /kæbəˈlɛtə/

cabaletta (plural cabalettas)

1. A short, rhythmically repetitive aria.
   • 1980, to bring the proceedings to an end and enable him to perform his salvatory mission, he swung into a cabaletta which summed up the argument against Arius — Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

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cabaletta f (plural cabalette)

1. cabaletta