legatura

See also: legătură and legătura

English

Etymology

Italian. See ligature.

Noun

legatura (plural legaturas)

1. (music) A tie or brace; a syncopation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “legatura”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin ligātūra, from Latin ligātus.

Noun

legatura f (plural legature)

1. binding (of a book)
2. ligature
3. logotype
4. (orthography, typography) typographic ligature

Related terms

• legare
• legamento

Descendants

• → English: legatura

Latin

Participle

lēgātūra

1. inflection of lēgātūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

lēgātūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of lēgātūrus