different between tarantism vs tarantella

English

Etymology

From New Latin tarantismus + English -ism (suffix forming nouns of action, process, or result), from Old Italian Taranto (“seaport in southern Italy”) + Latin -ismus (“-ism”); see further at tarantula. The English word is cognate with French tarentisme, Italian tarantismo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tæ??nt?zm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tæ??n?t?zm/
• Hyphenation: ta?rant?ism

Noun

tarantism (usually uncountable, plural tarantisms)

1. An extreme urge to dance, popularly thought to have been caused by the bite of a tarantula (Lycosa tarantula) and prevalent in southern Italy in the 15th through 17th centuries.

   Synonyms: choreomania, dancing mania

   • 1835, James Johnson, The Medico-chirurgical Review, page 53:

     This dancing mania or tarantism prevailed during the whole of the 17th century — and Baglivi, one of the best physicians of that time, made it the subject of a dissertation. He supports his history of the symptoms by the testimony of his father, […]

   • 2012, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Jonathan Skinner, Dancing Cultures: Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance, Berghahn Books (?ISBN), page 60:

     The position depicted is often seen to characterize rituals of tarantism, used for centuries in southern Italy and elsewhere to treat victims of the tarantula's bite, expressing personal and social crises (De Martino 2005).

Translations

References

Further reading

• tarantism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tintamars

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tarantella, a diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola (“tarantula”), on the belief that the dance was variously a result of, or cure for, its bite).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t???n?t?l?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tæ??n?t?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

tarantella (plural tarantellas)

1. A rapid dance in 6/8 time, originating in Italy, or a piece of music for such a dance.
   • 1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women ch. 37

     The set in which they found themselves was composed of English, and Amy was compelled to walk decorously through a cotillion, feeling all the while as if she could dance the tarantella with relish.

   • 1895 — Bret Harte, The Devotion of Enriquez

     "A tarantella, I presume?" blandly suggested the doctor.

     Miss Mannersley stopped, and rose carelessly from the piano. "It is a Moorish gypsy song of the fifteenth century," she said dryly.

   • 1922 — Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion ch. v

     We learn to understand why our addled minds seize so little with precision, why they are caught up and tossed about in a kind of tarantella by headlines and catch-words, why so often they cannot tell things apart or discern identity in apparent differences.

Related terms

• tarantism

Translations

See also

• tarantula

Finnish

Noun

tarantella

1. tarantula

Declension

Synonyms

• lintuhämähäkki
• taranteli

Italian

Etymology

Diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola (“tarantula”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ran?t?l.la/

Noun

tarantella f (plural tarantelle)

1. tarantella

Anagrams

• allattarne, rallentata