ballotte
See also: ballotté
English
Verb
ballotte (third-person singular simple present ballottes, present participle ballotting, simple past and past participle ballotted)
- (medicine, transitive) To perform ballottement upon.
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.lɔt/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian ballotta.
Noun
ballotte f (plural ballottes)
- (obsolete) ballot (ball used for voting)
- (dated, regional) grape harvesting basket
- (botany) alternative spelling of ballote (“black horehound”)
Descendants
Etymology 2
Verb
ballotte
- inflection of ballotter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “ballotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
ballotte f
- plural of ballotta