soprano

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, adjective from preposition Latin super (“above”). Doublet of sovereign, from the same Latin root via Old French.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈpɹænoʊ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

soprano (plural sopranos or soprani or sopranoes)

1. Musical part or section higher in pitch than alto and other sections.
2. Person or instrument that performs the soprano part.
   • 2008, Denis Norden, chapter 8, in Chips from a Life, →ISBN:

     I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos.

   Synonym: (person) sopranist

Coordinate terms

• (voice types): soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto (female); countertenor, tenor, baritone, bass (male)
• (music) SATB (Initialism of soprano, alto, tenor, bass.)

Derived terms

• lyric soprano
• mezzo-soprano
• sing soprano
• sopranino
• sopranist
• spinto soprano

 

Translations

pitch

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女高音 (zh) (nǚgāoyīn)

• Czech: soprán (cs) m
• Finnish: sopraano (fi)
• French: soprano (fr) m
• Galician: soprano (gl) m
• Georgian: სოპრანო (soṗrano)
• German: Sopran (de) m
• Hawaiian: kopolano
• Hungarian: szoprán (hu)
• Indonesian: sopran (id)
• Japanese: ソプラノ (ja) (sopurano)

• Malay: soprano
• Maori: reo kōtike, reo tōiri, reo tōiri
• Niuean: leo kula
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sopran m

  Nynorsk: sopran m

• Portuguese: soprano (pt) m
• Romanian: soprană (ro) f
• Russian: сопра́но (ru) n (sopráno) (indeclinable)
• Spanish: soprano m
• Swedish: sopran (sv) c

person or instrument

• Catalan: soprano (ca) f
• Finnish: sopraano (fi)
• Galician: soprano (gl) m or f
• Georgian: სოპრანო (soṗrano)
• Hawaiian: kopolano
• Hungarian: szoprán (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sopran m

  Nynorsk: sopran m

• Portuguese: soprano (pt) m or f
• Romanian: soprană (ro) f
• Russian: сопра́но (ru) n (sopráno) (indeclinable)
• Spanish: soprano m or f
• Swedish: sopran (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} sopraan (nl) f
• French: ^{(please verify)} soprano (fr)
• German: (1,2) ^{(please verify)} Sopran (de) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} soprano (it)

• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 高音 (zh) (乐器), ^{(please verify)} 女高音 (zh), ^{(please verify)} 童声高音
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} sopran (sl) m
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} bè xôpran (vi) , (person) ^{(please verify)} người hát giọng nữ cao , ^{(please verify)} instrument: đàn xôpran (vi) , ^{(please verify)} kèn xôpran (vi)

Verb

soprano (third-person singular simple present sopranos, present participle sopranoing, simple past and past participle sopranoed)

1. to sing or utter with high pitch, like a soprano singer

See also

• soprano on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Proanos, pronaos

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superanus, from Latin super. Doublet of the inherited sobirà.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /soˈpɾa.no/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /suˈpɾa.nu/

Noun

soprano m (plural sopranos)

1. soprano

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superanus, from Latin super. Doublet of the inherited souverain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.pʁa.no/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: sopranos

Noun

soprano m (plural sopranos)

1. soprano

   Synonym: soprane

Further reading

• “soprano” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *superānus, from Latin super. Also from *superānus: Italian sovrano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soˈpra.no/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: so‧prà‧no

Noun

soprano m (plural soprani)

1. a singer, commonly a woman, with a register higher than alto and the rest of the parts: soprano leggero, soprano lirico
2. the upper part in harmony for mixed voices: parte di soprano
3. instrument that performs the soprano part: flauto soprano

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English soprano, from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, from Latin super.

Noun

soprano m (plural sopranos)

1. (Jersey, music) soprano

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superanus, from Latin super. Doublet of soberano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /soˈpɾɐ̃.nu/, [soˈpɾɐ̃.nu]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /suˈpɾɐ.nu/, [suˈpɾɐ.nu]

• Hyphenation: so‧pra‧no
• Rhymes: -ɐnu, -ɐ̃nu

Noun

soprano m (plural sopranos)

1. (music) soprano (the highest vocal range)

Noun

soprano m, f (plural sopranos)

1. soprano (person singing with a soprano voice)

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Romanian

Noun

soprano n (plural soprane)

1. Alternative form of sopran

Declension

Declension of soprano

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) soprano	sopranoul	(niște) sopranouri	sopranourile
genitive/dative	(unui) soprano	sopranoului	(unor) sopranouri	sopranourilor
vocative	sopranoule		sopranourilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superanus, from Latin super. Doublet of soberano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soˈpɾano/, [soˈpɾa.no]
• Rhymes: -ano

Noun

soprano m or f (plural sopranos)

1. soprano (singer)

Noun

soprano m (plural sopranos)

1. soprano (pitch)

Further reading

• “soprano” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.