allegro
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
allegro (plural allegros)
- (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto.
- (music, more, traditionally) An expressive mark indicating that a passage is to be played in a lively or happy manner, not necessarily quickly.
- (music) A passage having this mark.
- 1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “Subtranscendental”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, book the second (In the Temple), page 116:
- And what mean these outbursts and objurgations of his, you will ask; these suggestions, furtive, rhapsodical, mystical; this furibund allegro about Money, Mediums, and Bohemia; [...]
Translations edit
tempo mark indicating a quick, lively tempo
Adverb edit
allegro (not comparable)
- (music) played in a quick, lively tempo
Translations edit
in a quick, lively tempo
Adjective edit
allegro (not comparable)
- (music) in a quick and lively manner
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Terms derived from noun, adjective or adverb sense
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
allegro
Declension edit
Inflection of allegro (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | allegro | allegrot | ||
genitive | allegron | allegrojen | ||
partitive | allegroa | allegroja | ||
illative | allegroon | allegroihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | allegro | allegrot | ||
accusative | nom. | allegro | allegrot | |
gen. | allegron | |||
genitive | allegron | allegrojen | ||
partitive | allegroa | allegroja | ||
inessive | allegrossa | allegroissa | ||
elative | allegrosta | allegroista | ||
illative | allegroon | allegroihin | ||
adessive | allegrolla | allegroilla | ||
ablative | allegrolta | allegroilta | ||
allative | allegrolle | allegroille | ||
essive | allegrona | allegroina | ||
translative | allegroksi | allegroiksi | ||
abessive | allegrotta | allegroitta | ||
instructive | — | allegroin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Adverb edit
allegro
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian allegro, itself borrowed from French allègre.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
allegro m (plural allegros)
Adverb edit
allegro
Further reading edit
- “allegro”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French allègre, from Latin alacer (“lively; happy, cheerful”). Compare the doublet alacre.
Adjective edit
allegro (feminine allegra, masculine plural allegri, feminine plural allegre, superlative allegrissimo)
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Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
allegro
References edit
- ^ allegro in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
allegro
Noun edit
allegro m (definite singular allegroen, indefinite plural allegroar, definite plural allegroane)
Usage notes edit
- Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically neuter.[1]
References edit
- “allegro” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- ^ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (in Norwegian, retrieved 12.21.20)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegro. Doublet of alegre.
Adjective edit
allegro (invariable)
- Alternative form of alegro
Adverb edit
allegro (not comparable)
- Alternative form of alegro
Noun edit
allegro m (plural allegri)
- Alternative form of alegro
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegro.
Adverb edit
allegro
Noun edit
allegro n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of allegro (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) allegro | allegroul |
genitive/dative | (unui) allegro | allegroului |
vocative | allegroule |