Masculine
battito
- (masculine) beat, beating, throb
- (masculine, rare) baton
Frequency
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).
battito del polso
batticuòre
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