cancan

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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

Έννοιες

κουτσομπολιό

φήμη

σχόλιο

κουτσομπόλης

κανκάν

φήμες

διαδόσεις

Συνώνυμα

commérage

ragot

potin

médisance

rumeur

commentaire

papotage

commenter

contenter

racontar

Μεταφράσεις

gossip

chiacchiera

cancan

fofoca

Klatsch

dedikodu

chisme

Cancan

cancán

pettegolezzo

bisbilhotice

diceria

can-can

gazzettino

xafarderia

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/kɑ̃.kɑ̃/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

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".