balbettare
Italian (Fiorentino)
verb
Definitions
- (ambitransitive) to stammer
- (intransitive) of a baby to babble
- (intransitive) of a science, philosophy, etc. to emerge; to be nascent
- (intransitive) to luff shake
- (transitive) to speak a little bit of a foreign language
Etymology
Inherited from Latin balbitāre, balbus (stammering, stuttering).
Origin
Latin
balbus
Gloss
stammering, stuttering
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- balbitāre Latin
- balbo Latin
- balbus Latin
- balbutio, balbūtiō, balbūtīre Latin
- balbettamento Italian
- balbo Italian
- balbutiement French
- balbutier French
- balbutieur French
- bobo Spanish, Castilian
- *balb- Proto-Indo-European
- babau Catalan, Valencian
- bâlbâi Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- balb Old Irish
- balbetar Venetian