battito

Italian

Etymology

From batt(ere) (“to beat”) +‎ -ito (to nominalise the verb).

This construction is modelled on gemito and fremito, which are nouns indirectly derived from Latin verbs. Similarly, tremito was constructed this way (from tremare).[1]

Noun

battito m (plural battiti)

  1. beat, beating, throb

Derived terms

References
  1. Il Devoto–Oli (Dizionario italiano da un affiliato di Oxford University Press).
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