Feminine
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pallavolo
volleyball (a game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pal‧la‧vó‧lo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˌpal.laˈvo.lo/
Etymology
Univerbation of palla + a + volo, literally “ball on flight”. The pronunciation with -vv-, though usually proscribed, is very common, as it respects the syntactic gemination of a.
Related words
volleyball
ed altri campi piccoli)
palla volo
volley-ball
campo (da tennis
siatkówka
piłka siatkowa
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