baluginare

Senso (Inglese)

  1. (intransitive, usually) to flash or flicker (appear ad disappear rapidly) (of light)
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) to come to mind suddenly, and sometimes unclearly

Con il trattino come
ba‧lu‧gi‧nà‧re
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ba.lu.d͡ʒiˈna.re/
Etimologia (Inglese)

Uncertain. Perhaps from ba- + luce (“light”) + -ino + -are. The voicing of -c- is common in Tuscan (compare fagiolo, piagente, brage). The prefix ba(r)- would be a dialectal variant of bis-, here in the sense of “imperfectly” (compare barlume (“glimmer”)).

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