it is indeed.
The word ballerina is a noun, a woman who performs the classical dance, ballet. Example sentence: Nobody likes a snotty ballerina. The ballerina was very excited to perform in the dance recital the following night.
There is no single English word for a male ballet dancer.
Ballerina is an Italian loan word in English.Specifically, the word is a feminine noun in its singular form. It may be preceded by the feminine singular definite article la ("the") or the feminine singular indefinite article una ("a, one"). The pronunciation will be "BAL-ley-REE-na" in Italian.
ballet dancer, ballerina
In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female. The term 'prima ballerina' is a gender specific noun for the female lead in a ballet company. There is no corresponding gender specific noun for a male. The noun 'ballerina' is from Italian. The male dancer is a ballerino.
The collective nouns are a troupe of ballerinas and a company of ballerinas.
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It could well have originated from the ballroom.
Yes, the word 'noun' is a noun, a word for a thing.
"(Female) dancer" is an English equivalent of the Italian word ballerina.Specifically, the Italian word is a feminine noun. Its singular definite article lameans "the." Its singular indefinite article una means "a, one."The pronunciation is "BAHL-leh-REE-nah."
the star performer in the play was a graceful ballerina. :)