Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

passamezzo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pas-samez-zo
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An Italian folk dance of the 16th and early 17th centuries.

Etymology

From Italian passamezzo. Doublet of passymeasure.

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: passamezzo

Inflected Forms

passamezzos (plural) passamezzi (plural)

Derived Forms

passymeasure

Questions

What does passamezzo mean?: An Italian folk dance of the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Where does passamezzo come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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