contadina

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English

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Etymology

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From Italian contadina.

Noun

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contadina (plural contadinas or contadine)

  1. An Italian peasant woman.
    • 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors[1]:
      The mellowest lamplight and the easiest chair had been placed at his disposal by Baptiste—subtlest of servants; the novel half uncut, the novel lemon-coloured and tender, with the ivory knife athwart it like a dagger in a contadina's hair, had been pushed within the soft circle—a circle which, for some reason, affected Strether as softer still after the same Baptiste had remarked that, in the absence of a further need of anything by Monsieur, he would betake himself to bed.

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kon.taˈdi.na/
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: con‧ta‧dì‧na

Adjective

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contadina

  1. feminine singular of contadino

Noun

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contadina f (plural contadine, diminutive contadinèlla or contadinétta or contadinòtta, pejorative contadinàccia)

  1. female equivalent of contadino
  2. (dance) the name of a particular dance, danced in a circle by only men
  3. (music) the music that accompanies that dance

Further reading

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  • contadina in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • contadìna in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication