mordente

English

Etymology

Italian

Noun

mordente (plural mordentes)

1. (music) An embellishment resembling a trill.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “mordente”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• dementor, entoderm, mentored

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /morˈdɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: mor‧dèn‧te

Participle

mordente (plural mordenti)

1. present participle of mordere

Adjective

mordente (plural mordenti)

1. biting

Noun

mordente m (plural mordenti)

1. mordant, base
2. bite (figurative)
3. drive (personality)

Anagrams

• dormente, tremendo

Latin

Participle

mordente

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of mordēns