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語源

Borrowed from Italian tarantella, a diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola (“tarantula”), on the belief that the dance was variously a result of, or cure for, its bite).

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌtɛɹənˈtɛlə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tæɹənˈtɛlə/
• 韻: -ɛlə

名詞

tarantella (plural tarantellas)

1. A rapid dance in 6/8 time, originating in Italy, or a piece of music for such a dance.
   • 1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

     The set in which they found themselves was composed of English, and Amy was compelled to walk decorously through a cotillion, feeling all the while as if she could dance the tarantella with relish.

   • 1895, Bret Harte, The Devotion of Enriquez:

     "A tarantella, I presume?" blandly suggested the doctor.
     Miss Mannersley stopped, and rose carelessly from the piano. "It is a Moorish gypsy song of the fifteenth century," she said dryly.

   • 1922, Walter Lippmann, “chapter v”, in Public Opinion:

     We learn to understand why our addled minds seize so little with precision, why they are caught up and tossed about in a kind of tarantella by headlines and catch-words, why so often they cannot tell things apart or discern identity in apparent differences.

関連する語

• tarantism

参考

• tarantula