Today’s cute, little word of the day, bis, is a Latin adverb meaning twice. Not surprisingly, since bi is used across many languages to refer to ‘two’ or ‘twice.’
Bis also has a theatrical meaning: an encore. Used in this way, as an exclamation, it means ‘play that part again!’ In other words, a crowd screams out, ‘Bis! Bis!’ when they want to hear a certain part/song for the second time.
Examples:
‘La pasta è così buona, faccio un bis.‘ – The pasta is so good, I’m taking seconds. (I am taking a second portion.)
‘Kanye ha fatto il bis di Gold Digger, la mia canzone preferita!’ – Kanye played Gold Digger twice, my favorite song!’
Finally we understand what it means when our son comes back from Nido and we read the chart. He is having twice the amount of “Caciottina” than we thought!
Ha! It’s definitely hard to resist the ‘bis’ of caciottina!
Bis is popular in almost any lenguage, isn’t it ? I mean the bis for “play it again”, didn’t know it’s all from the latin