battito

Meaning

1. (masculine) beat, beating, throb
2. (masculine, rare) baton

Concepts

beat

heartbeat

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throb

pulse

pulsation

beating

pit-a-pat

flutter

knock

beat

knocking

pounding

throbbing

clinical death

stroke

Synonyms

pulsazione

palpito

battito del cuore

💓

polso

battito del polso

batticuòre

colpo

battiti del cuore

rumore

battito cardiaco

ticchettio

Translations

battement

latido

pulsation

pouls

palpitació

pulsación

pulso

Puls

pulso

Herzschlag

💓

Klopfen

pulsation du cœur

Schlag

batec

σφυγμός

Hyphenated as

bàt‧ti‧to

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbat.ti.to/

Etymology

From battere (“to beat”) + -ito (to nominalise/nominalize the verb).
This construction is modelled on gemito and fremito, which are nouns indirectly derived from Latin verbs. Similarly, tremito was constructed this way (from tremare).