t 1 a 1 r 1 a 1 n 1 t 1 i 1 s 1 m 3
9 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider
originFrom New Latin tarantismus + English -ism (suffix forming nouns of action, process, or result), from Old Italian Taranto (“seaport in southern Italy”) + Latin -ismus (“-ism”); see further at tarantula. The English word is cognate with French tarentisme, Italian tarantismo.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- stamina 9
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