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allegretto

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See also: allégretto and Allegretto

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian allegretto, diminutive form of allegro.

Adverb

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allegretto (not comparable)

  1. (music) To be played rather fast and lively.
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Translations

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Noun

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allegretto (plural allegrettos)

  1. (music) A movement in this time.
    • 1880, Edmund Gurney, The Power of Sound, page 99:
      It was only after the conception had received its fullest due, and the vast and complex organism its perfect development, that the certainty arose of an effect on human emotion comparable to that which was born when the opening bars of the allegretto in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony had been played for the first time, and the idea of them was from that moment alive and abroad in the world.

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Italian allegretto

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɑlːeɡretːo/, [ˈɑ̝lːe̞ɡˌre̞t̪ːo̞]
  • Rhymes: -etːo
  • Hyphenation(key): al‧leg‧ret‧to

Noun

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allegretto

  1. (music) allegretto (tempo mark; passage with this mark)

Declension

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Inflection of allegretto (Kotus type 1*C/valo, tt-t gradation)
nominative allegretto allegretot
genitive allegreton allegrettojen
partitive allegrettoa allegrettoja
illative allegrettoon allegrettoihin
singular plural
nominative allegretto allegretot
accusative nom. allegretto allegretot
gen. allegreton
genitive allegreton allegrettojen
partitive allegrettoa allegrettoja
inessive allegretossa allegretoissa
elative allegretosta allegretoista
illative allegrettoon allegrettoihin
adessive allegretolla allegretoilla
ablative allegretolta allegretoilta
allative allegretolle allegretoille
essive allegrettona allegrettoina
translative allegretoksi allegretoiksi
abessive allegretotta allegretoitta
instructive allegretoin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of allegretto (Kotus type 1*C/valo, tt-t gradation)

Adverb

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allegretto

  1. (music) allegretto (in a rather fast and lively manner)

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.le.ɡʁɛ.to/ ~ /a.le.ɡʁe.to/
  • Audio:(file)

Adverb

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allegretto

  1. allegretto

Further reading

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegretto.

Adverb

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allegretto

  1. (music) allegretto
    Synonym: sedikit cepat

Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology

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From allegro +‎ -etto.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /al.leˈɡret.to/
  • Rhymes: -etto
  • Hyphenation: al‧le‧grét‧to

Adverb

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allegretto

  1. (music) allegretto

Noun

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allegretto m (plural allegretti)

  1. diminutive of allegro
  2. (music) allegretto

Further reading

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  • allegretto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian allegretto.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /al.lɛɡˈrɛt.tɔ/

Noun

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allegretto m (plural allegretti)

  1. (music) allegretto
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Italian allegretto.

Adverb

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allegretto

  1. (music) allegretto

Noun

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allegretto m (definite singular allegrettoen, indefinite plural allegrettoar, definite plural allegrettoane)

  1. (music) an allegretto

Usage notes

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  • Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically neuter.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (in Norwegian, retrieved 12.21.20)

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegretto.

Adverb

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allegretto (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of alegreto

Noun

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allegretto m (plural allegretti)

  1. Alternative spelling of alegreto

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegretto.

Adverb

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allegretto

  1. allegretto

Noun

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allegretto n (uncountable)

  1. allegretto

Declension

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singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative allegretto allegrettoul
genitive-dative allegretto allegrettoului
vocative allegrettoule