different between ballet vs pirouette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“ball”), from Late Latin ball? (“to dance”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæle?/, /bæl?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /bælæe/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /b?læe/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /b?le?/, /b?l??/
• (General American) enPR: b?-l??, b??l?(') IPA^(key): /bæ?le?/, /?bæ(?)le?/
• Rhymes: -æle?, -æli, -e?
• Hyphenation: bal?let

Noun

ballet (countable and uncountable, plural ballets)

1. A classical form of dance.
2. A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
3. The company of persons who perform this dance.
4. (music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.
5. (heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.
6. (figuratively) Any intricate series of operations involving coordination between individuals.
   • 1990, Historic Preservation: Quarterly of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings (volumes 42-43)

     Food preparation on a potager no doubt became a kitchen ballet in which pans were constantly shifted, coals constantly replenished, and grates shaken out.

   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     Henry Payton joined Alan on the sidelines during the conclusion of the oddly delicate ballet known as On-Scene Investigation.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ballet (third-person singular simple present ballets, present participle balleting, simple past and past participle balleted)

1. To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.
   • 2014 Rutherford's Vascular Surgery E-Book - Page 1340

     Situations that typically require longer iliac limbs than the measurements suggest include extreme iliac tortuosity, “balleting” of the limbs (Endurant and Excluder) (Fig. 90-3), and the need to extend to the external iliac arteries. It these anatomic circumstances, it is prudent to choose a longer length when in doubt.

   • 2016 Jacob Russell Dring, "Endless the Chase"

     Unfortunately, he could only sustain so much abuse. Footfalls approached. Kanoa's lips smacked and his jaw hung open. His eyelids fluttered, their underlying gaze balleting without clarity. He felt beyond sick, and his world spun immensely. A garbled voice of incoherency seemed to be his only link to this realm of consciousness.

   • 2017 Num Nums "A Total Bust a Move" The ZhuZhus

     Frankie's obviously going to ballet her way to the trophy.

See also

• mime
• modern dance

Anagrams

• betall

Catalan

Noun

ballet m (plural ballets)

1. ballet

Further reading

• “ballet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ballet” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ballet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ballet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chavacano

Etymology

Borrowed from English ballet, from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“ball”).

Noun

ballet

1. ballet (dance tradition and style)

Danish

Etymology

Either from French ballet or directly from Italian balletto, the diminutive form of ballo (“dance, ball”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal?t/, [b?a?l?d?]

Noun

ballet c (singular definite balletten, plural indefinite balletter)

1. ballet

Inflection

Descendants

• ? Greenlandic: balletti

Further reading

• “ballet” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballet, from Middle French ballet, from Italian balletto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??l?t/
• Hyphenation: bal?let
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

ballet n (plural balletten, diminutive balletje n)

1. ballet

Derived terms

• balletles
• balletzaal

French

Etymology

From Italian balletto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.l?/

Noun

ballet m (plural ballets)

1. ballet

Derived terms

• ballet à ski
• ballet-féerie
• corps de ballet
• maître de ballet

Descendants

• ? English: ballet
• ? Portuguese: balé, balê
• ? Swedish: balett
• ? Thai: ??????? (ban-lêe)
• ? Vietnamese: ba lê

Further reading

• “ballet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

ballet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of ballen

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bal.let/, [?bäl???t?]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?bal.let/, [?bal?et]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bal.let/, [?b?l??t?]

Verb

ballet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of ball? (“to dance”)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?palleh(t)/

Verb

ballet

1. inflection of ballat:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular past indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ballet n

1. definite singular of ball (Etymology 2)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ballet n

1. definite singular of ball (Etymology 2)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French ballet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bale/, [?ba.le]

• IPA^(key): /ba?let/, [ba?let?]

Noun

ballet m (uncountable)

1. ballet

English

Etymology

From French pirouette.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?.????t/, /?p?.?u???t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?.???w?t/, /?p?.?u???t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

pirouette (plural pirouettes)

1. A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing, primarily in ballet.
2. The whirling about of a horse.

Translations

Verb

pirouette (third-person singular simple present pirouettes, present participle pirouetting, simple past and past participle pirouetted)

1. (intransitive) To perform a pirouette; to whirl on the toes, like a dancer.

Translations

Further reading

• Glossary of ballet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pirouette (dressage) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French pirouette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi.ru??.t?/
• Hyphenation: pi?rou?et?te
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

pirouette f (plural pirouettes or pirouetten)

1. pirouette

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.?w?t/

Etymology 1

Alteration of pirouelle, perhaps after girouette.

Noun

pirouette f (plural pirouettes)

1. A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing.
2. (sports, equestrians) A whirling volt movement made by a horse.

Derived terms

• pirouetter

Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

pirouette

1. first-person singular present indicative of pirouetter
2. third-person singular present indicative of pirouetter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of pirouetter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of pirouetter
5. second-person singular imperative of pirouetter

Further reading

• “pirouette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• Vocabulaire de la danse classique on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr