buffo
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
buffo (plural buffos or buffi)
- (music) A comic singer, particularly in comic opera
- 2007 January 27, Vivien Schweitzer, “Young Lovers, a Vespa and a Frolic by Rossini”, in New York Times[1]:
- Signor Bruschino was updated from a generic buffo character to an oily, scholarly-looking, suit-clad neurotic, excellently acted and sung by Marco Nistico.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Compare Old French bouffer, originally "to puff up;" both are from Medieval Latin buffa, itself echoic of puffing out cheeks.[1]
Adjective edit
buffo (feminine buffa, masculine plural buffi, feminine plural buffe)
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
buffo m (plural buffi)
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Etymology 3 edit
Alteration of puf, from French pouf (“debt”), used in locutions such as faire pouf and à pouf.
Noun edit
buffo m (plural buffi)
Etymology 4 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
buffo
References edit
- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “buffo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati