bizzarro

See also: Bizzarro

Italian

Etymology

Unknown, but probably related to bizza (“tantrum”), which could be of Germanic origin.[1] See bizarre for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bidˈd͡zar.ro/
  • Rhymes: -arro
  • Hyphenation: biz‧zàr‧ro

Adjective

bizzarro (feminine bizzarra, masculine plural bizzarri, feminine plural bizzarre)

  1. odd, queer, eccentric, bizarre, weird
  2. frisky (horse)

Descendants

  • → Esperanto: bizara
  • → French: bizarre (see there for further descendants)
  • → Ido: bizara
  • → Portuguese: bizarro
  • → Serbo-Croatian: bȉzāran, би̏за̄ран
  • → Spanish: bizarro

References

  1. ^ “bizarre”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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