piano
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Clipping of pianoforte, from Italian pianoforte, from piano (“soft”) + forte (“strong”). So named because it could produce a wide range of varied volumes note-by-note, in contrast to older keyboard instruments, notably the harpsichord. Doublet of llano, plain, and plane.
Pronunciation edit
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /piˈænoʊ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /piˈænəʊ/
- (obsolete, nonstandard) IPA(key): /paɪˈænoʊ/[1]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun edit
piano (plural pianos or (archaic) pianoes)
- (music) a percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings [from 1803]
- Synonym: (dated) pianoforte
- Coordinate terms: cembalo, clavichord, fortepiano, harpsichord, organ, synthesizer, synth
- The piano in his house takes up a lot of space.
- She has been taking lessons for many years and now plays piano very well.
Derived terms edit
- baby grand piano
- barrel piano
- boudoir piano
- cabinet piano
- Chicago piano
- cottage piano
- digital piano
- dumb piano
- electric piano
- finger piano
- floor piano
- giraffe piano
- grand piano
- Jewish piano
- pianist
- piano accordion
- piano bar
- piano bench
- piano fingers
- piano-forte
- pianoist
- piano keys
- pianola
- piano makerstreet piano
- piano nobile
- piano player
- piano roll
- piano stool
- piano wire
- player piano
- prepared piano
- pyramid piano
- Rhodes piano
- square piano
- steam piano
- straight piano
- street piano
- stride piano
- thumb piano
- upright piano
- virtual piano
Translations edit
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Verb edit
piano (third-person singular simple present pianos, present participle pianoing, simple past and past participle pianoed)
- To play the piano.
- 1967, Harry F. Chaplin, A McCrae Miscellany, page 41:
- Anyhow I pianoed to my own ear, and had no thought at that time for an audience.
- 1978, Bertha Harris, Confessions of Cherubino, page 96:
- Who comforted me with Madeleines and lime tea, with whipped cream in my cocoa in far off Ann Arbor while others selfishly fiddled, bassooned, pianoed only for their own ugly self-advancement!
- 2008, John Gruen, Callas Kissed Me...Lenny Too!, page 138:
- John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Arnold Weinstein, and others came to the house, taping their poems as I pianoed and zithered and drummed away.
- 2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 139:
- We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.
- (of or with fingers) To move (the fingers) up and down on, similar to the motions of a pianist playing the piano.
- 2013, Ann Blair Kloman, A Diamond to Die For, page 29:
- He just stared at her, leaned back in his chair and pianoed his fingers along the tablecloth.
- 2017, Kim Michele Richardson, The Sisters of Glass Ferry:
- “Jean, it ain't right how you separated those two,” he said, and pianoed the little coffin with his fingers, tapping out his grievance.
- 2020, Simon Lelic, The Search Party:
- The superintendent pianoed his fingers on the surface of a nearby desk.
- 2021, Emilya Naymark, Hide in Place:
- Holly pianoed her fingers over her throat.
- To equip with a piano.
- 1889, The Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer, page 128:
- Other buildings will also be erected and pianoed by the same architect.
- 1892, The Japan Daily Mail - Volume 18, page 772:
- A tabernacle has been built, burnt, rebuilt, electric lighted, organed, pianoed, and frequently filled — all during the last two years.
References edit
- ^ Meredith, L. P. (1872) “Piano”, in Every-Day Errors of Speech[1], Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott & Co., page 35.
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /piˈɑnoʊ/, /piˈænoʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /piˈɑːnəʊ/
Adverb edit
piano (not comparable)
- (music) softly, as a musical direction (abbreviated to p. in sheet music) [from 17th c.]
Related terms edit
Translations edit
Adjective edit
piano (comparative more piano, superlative most piano)
- (music) Soft, quiet.
- (in extended use) Gentle, soft, subdued.
- 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume IV, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
- “Oh! yes, yes, there is not a word to be said against James Benwick […] that soft sort of manner does not do him justice.” […]
“Well, well, ladies are the best judges; but James Benwick is rather too piano for me […] ”
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 160:
- ‘Tradecraft, Chris,’ Enderby put in, who liked his bit of jargon, and Martindale, still piano, shot him a glance of admiration.
Verb edit
piano (third-person singular simple present pianos, present participle pianoing, simple past and past participle pianoed)
- To become softer and less intense.
- 1839, Rosina Doyle Bulwer afterwards Bulwer Lytton (Baroness Lytton.), Cheveley; Or, The Man of Honour, page 385:
- “You know, Mrs. Wrigglechops,” pianoed Miss Drucilla , even more meekly and mildly than before, "the ace is either one or eleven."
- 2000, David R. Beasley, Aspects of Love: Three novellas, page 83:
- His tone pianoed on intimacy.
- 2009, David Lau, Virgil and the Mountain Cat, page 61:
- A day pianoed, swelled acutest, pianoed.
Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
Albanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piano f (plural piano, definite pianoja, definite plural pianot)
Azerbaijani edit
Cyrillic | пиано | |
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Abjad |
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Italian piano.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
piano (definite accusative pianonu, plural pianolar)
Declension edit
Declension of piano | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | piano |
pianolar | ||||||
definite accusative | pianonu |
pianoları | ||||||
dative | pianoya |
pianolara | ||||||
locative | pianoda |
pianolarda | ||||||
ablative | pianodan |
pianolardan | ||||||
definite genitive | pianonun |
pianoların |
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piano m (plural pianos)
Czech edit
Etymology edit
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piano n
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French piano, from Italian piano, shortening of pianoforte.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piano f or n (plural piano's, diminutive pianootje n)
- (music) piano
- Synonym: pianoforte
Derived terms edit
Esperanto edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piano (accusative singular pianon, plural pianoj, accusative plural pianojn)
Derived terms edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piano
Declension edit
Inflection of piano (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | piano | pianot | ||
genitive | pianon | pianojen | ||
partitive | pianoa | pianoja | ||
illative | pianoon | pianoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | piano | pianot | ||
accusative | nom. | piano | pianot | |
gen. | pianon | |||
genitive | pianon | pianojen | ||
partitive | pianoa | pianoja | ||
inessive | pianossa | pianoissa | ||
elative | pianosta | pianoista | ||
illative | pianoon | pianoihin | ||
adessive | pianolla | pianoilla | ||
ablative | pianolta | pianoilta | ||
allative | pianolle | pianoille | ||
essive | pianona | pianoina | ||
translative | pianoksi | pianoiksi | ||
abessive | pianotta | pianoitta | ||
instructive | — | pianoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
- digitaalipiano
- konserttipiano
- pianohaitari
- pianoharmonikka
- pianokappale
- pianokonsertti
- pianokonsertto
- pianokoulu
- pianokvartetti
- pianokvartetto
- pianokvintetti
- pianokvintetto
- pianolanka
- pianomusiikki
- pianonkieli
- pianonsoittaja
- pianonsoitto
- pianonvirittäjä
- pianonviritys
- piano-oppilas
- pianosolisti
- pianosonaatti
- pianosoolo
- pianosovitus
- pianosävellys
- pianotaide
- pianotaiteilija
- pianoteos
- pianotrio
- pianotunti
- pianotuoli
- pystypiano
- sähköpiano
- taffelipiano
Further reading edit
- “piano”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian piano. Doublet of plain and plan.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piano m (plural pianos)
- (music) piano
- Il joue du piano avec compétence.
- He plays the piano competently.
- 1986, “Il était une fois … une maison des musiciens [There Once Was… a House of Musicians]”, in Il était une fois … une petite grenouille [There Once Was… a Little Frog] (fiction), Paris: CLE International:
- Je n’aime pas le piano. Je préfère le football.
Hein ! Quoi ! Et tu me dis ça à moi, le grand professeur Trompette ? Tiens ! Répète ta leçon cinq fois ! Non, dix fois !
Je déteste le piano !- I don’t like the piano. I like football more.
Huh? What? And you’re telling that to me, the great professor Trumpet? Alright then! Repeat what you’ve learned five times! No, ten times!
I hate the piano!
- I don’t like the piano. I like football more.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
→ Turkish: piyano
Further reading edit
- “piano”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
piano (feminine piana, masculine plural piani, feminine plural piane, superlative pianissimo)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Noun edit
piano m (plural piani)
- plane
- floor, storey (British), story (US) (of a building)
- plan, tactic, stratagem, scheme, plot
- (music) piano, as short for pianoforte
Synonyms edit
Adverb edit
piano (superlative pianissimo)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- piano1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- piano2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- piano3 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
piano (feminine piana, masculine plural piani, feminine plural piane)
- (relational) of any of the popes named Pius; Pian
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
piano
- third-person plural present indicative of piare (“to chirp, to cheep”)
Anagrams edit
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
piano
Malay edit
Noun edit
piano (Jawi spelling ڤيانو, plural piano-piano, informal 1st possessive pianoku, 2nd possessive pianomu, 3rd possessive pianonya)
Further reading edit
- “piano” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Marshallese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English piano, short form of pianoforte, from Italian pianoforte, from piano (“soft”) + forte (“strong”). The Italian word piano is from Latin plānus, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-.
Pronunciation edit
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲiɑːnʲɔ], (enunciated) [pʲiɑ nʲɔ]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲijæɰnʲɛw/
- Bender phonemes: {piyahnew}
Noun edit
piano (construct form pianoin)
- a piano
Verb edit
piano (person noun ri-piano)
References edit
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English piano and French piano.
Noun edit
piano m (plural pianos)
Derived terms edit
- pianiste (“pianist”)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
piano n (definite singular pianoet, indefinite plural piano or pianoer, definite plural pianoa or pianoene)
Related terms edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
piano n (definite singular pianoet, indefinite plural piano, definite plural pianoa)
Related terms edit
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piano f
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian piano,[1] short form of pianoforte. Doublet of plano, chão, and porão.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
piano
Adverb edit
piano
Noun edit
piano m (plural pianos)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Hunsrik: Piano
References edit
- ^ “piano” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian piano.
Adverb edit
piano
Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
piano
- musical directive to play softly
Noun edit
piano n (genitive singular piana, nominative plural pianá, genitive plural pián, declension pattern of mesto)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- “piano”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of pianoforte, from Italian pianoforte.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piano m (plural pianos)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “piano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
piano (n class, plural piano)
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Adverb edit
piano (not comparable)
Noun edit
piano n
Declension edit
Declension of piano | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | piano | pianot | pianon | pianona |
Genitive | pianos | pianots | pianons | pianonas |
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
Veps edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
piano
Inflection edit
Inflection of piano (inflection type 1/ilo) | |||
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nominative sing. | piano | ||
genitive sing. | pianon | ||
partitive sing. | pianod | ||
partitive plur. | pianoid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | piano | pianod | |
accusative | pianon | pianod | |
genitive | pianon | pianoiden | |
partitive | pianod | pianoid | |
essive-instructive | pianon | pianoin | |
translative | pianoks | pianoikš | |
inessive | pianos | pianoiš | |
elative | pianospäi | pianoišpäi | |
illative | pianoho | pianoihe | |
adessive | pianol | pianoil | |
ablative | pianolpäi | pianoilpäi | |
allative | pianole | pianoile | |
abessive | pianota | pianoita | |
comitative | pianonke | pianoidenke | |
prolative | pianodme | pianoidme | |
approximative I | pianonno | pianoidenno | |
approximative II | pianonnoks | pianoidennoks | |
egressive | pianonnopäi | pianoidennopäi | |
terminative I | pianohosai | pianoihesai | |
terminative II | pianolesai | pianoilesai | |
terminative III | pianossai | — | |
additive I | pianohopäi | pianoihepäi | |
additive II | pianolepäi | pianoilepäi |
References edit
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈpjano/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈpja(ː)no/
- Rhymes: -ano
Noun edit
piano f (plural pianoau or pianos)
- (music) piano, pianoforte
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
piano | biano | mhiano | phiano |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “piano”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies