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sotto

See also: sótto and sotto-

English edit

Etymology edit

Ellipsis of sotto voce.

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

sotto (not comparable)

  1. Ellipsis of sotto voce.
    • 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104:
      Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto.
    • 2006 October 2nd, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “Pilot”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27):
      Wolowitz:   Énchanté, mademoiselle. Howard Wolowitz, Cal Tech department of applied physics. You may be familiar with some of my work – – it’s currently toodling around the surface of Mars.
      Penny:   Hi. Penny.
      Wolowitz:   You smell wonderful. What is that scent you’re wearing?
      Penny:   It’s called b.o.
      Wolowitz:   Ah. Hence the shower, of course. Leonard, where have you been hiding this one? She’s charming.
      Sheldon:   (SOTTO, TO LEONARD)   Oh, he’s good.

Translations edit

music, informal: sotto voce (adverb) — see sotto voce

Adjective edit

sotto (not comparable)

  1. Ellipsis of sotto voce.
    • 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 237:
      Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 7:
      ‘Assuming these board scores are accurate reflectors of true capacity in this case,’ Academic Affairs says, his high voice serious and sotto, […]
    • 2008, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child, page 192:
      The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto, intimate.

Translations edit

music, informal: sotto voce (adjective) — see sotto voce

Anagrams edit

Italian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub.[1] Ultimately from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo. Cognate to French sous.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈsot.to/
  • Rhymes: -otto
  • Hyphenation: sót‧to
  • Audio:(file)

Preposition edit

sotto

  1. under, beneath, underneath
  2. below, south of

Adverb edit

sotto

  1. down
  2. underneath
  3. below

Antonyms edit

Noun edit

sotto (invariable)

  1. bottom

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

Anagrams edit

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

sotto

  1. Rōmaji transcription of そっと

Neapolitan edit

Etymology edit

From Latin subtus, from sub. Cognate to Italian sotto and French sous.

Preposition edit

sotto

  1. below

Ye'kwana edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Cariban *wɨtoto (“person”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sotto (possessed sottoi)

  1. person, human
  2. Ye'kwana speaker, Ye'kwana, Maquiritari

Numeral edit

sotto

  1. (as a component in other numerals) twenty

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sotto”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon, page 113
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ssoto”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ssoto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “so’to”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
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