pallavolo

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)

  1. 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
  1. pallavolo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  2. pallavolo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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