Ballo
[藞bal.o]Meaning
Hungarian surname Ball贸, borrowed into English; also Italian for a dance form
Background Story
Ballo is an English surname borrowed from Hungarian Ball贸. Ballo is also the Italian name of a fifteenth-century dance form, most noted for its frequent changes of tempo and meter. That word comes from Latin ball艒, ball膩re, "to dance", which in turn comes from the Greek 尾伪位位委味蠅 (balliz艒), "to dance, to jump about".
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