cancan

Significat (Anglès)

1. (masculine) gossip (idle talk)
2. (masculine) cancan (dance)

Conceptes

xafarderia

comentari

rumor

safareig

tafaner

xafarder

xafardejar

xafarderies

Sinònims

commérage

ragot

potin

médisance

rumeur

commentaire

papotage

commenter

contenter

racontar

Traduccions

gossip

chiacchiera

Cancan

fofoca

cancan

dedikodu

Klatsch

chisme

cancán

pettegolezzo

bisbilhotice

diceria

can-can

gazzettino

can-can

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kɑ̃.kɑ̃/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Supposedly, this word originates with a dispute at the Collège de France circa 1550, over whether to use a traditional French pronunciation of Latin or a reconstructed pronunciation of Latin. One of the points of most dispute was the pronunciation of qu, with the word quamquam exemplifying this: it was pronounced in reconstructed Latin as [ˈkʷam.kʷã(m)] but pronounced in French Latin as /kɑ̃.kɑ̃/ ("cancan"). After this debacle, a "cancan" came to be "any kind of scandalous performance".