2006-09-08 08:28:07 · 6 answers · asked by Adolfo21 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Dancing
Good question. I'm under impression that this word came from Italian language. I think it means "dance performance" but I'm not absolutely sure.
From Wikipedia:
Domenico da Piacenza (1390–1470) is credited with the first use of the term ballo (in De Arte Saltandi et Choreas Ducendi) instead of danza (dance) for his baletti or balli which later came to be known as Ballets. The first Ballet per se is considered to be Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx's Ballet Comique de la Royne (1581) and was a ballet comique (ballet drama). 1581 also saw the publication of Fabritio Caroso's Il Ballarino, a technical manual on ballet dancing that helped to establish Italy as a major centre of ballet development.
2006-09-08 10:29:01 · answer #1 · answered by Snowflake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ballet is a French verb that literally means "to dance"
2006-09-08 09:49:39 · answer #2 · answered by silmarwenelintari 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
y is antidisestablishmentarianism called repeats long word i just said and is too lazy to type it all again but really im typing more letters than the word, which doesnt really make sense wow this is a really long run on sentence?
2006-09-08 08:34:04 · answer #3 · answered by Chestnut 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
for the same reason a rose is called a rose
2006-09-08 08:29:59 · answer #4 · answered by katlvr125 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because speckled trout was already taken.
2006-09-08 08:34:04 · answer #5 · answered by digital genius 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
gay was taken
2006-09-08 08:49:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋