Inglese: Iniziamo con l'inglese in quanto lingua piรน vicina all'oggetto in questione. Ovviamente la parola basketball , in italiano pallone da basket , รจ una parola composta da basket , cestino, e ball , palla, in quanto l'obiettivo del gioco era quello di fare canestro con la palla in un cestino posto in alto. Nell' Online Etymology Dictionary , troviamo le seguenti etimologie delle due parol: basket : "vessel made of thin strips of wood, or other flexible materials, interwoven in a great variety of forms, and used for many purpose," early 13c., from Anglo-French bascat ; a word of obscure origin despite much speculation. On one theory, it is from Latin bascauda "kettle, table-vessel," said by the Roman poet Martial to be from Celtic British and perhaps cognate with Latin fascis "bundle, faggot," in which case it probably originally meant "wicker basket." But OED frowns on this, and there is no evidence of such a word in