soprano

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Italian, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, adjective from preposition super (“above”).

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

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 978-0-00-727796-4:

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

SynonymsEdit

• (person): sopranist

Coordinate termsEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

terms derived from soprano

• lyric soprano
• mezzo-soprano

• sing soprano
• sopranino

• sopranist
• spinto soprano

TranslationsEdit

pitch

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女高音 (zh) (nǚgāoyīn)

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

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

  Bokmål: sopran m

  Nynorsk: sopran m

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

person or instrument

• Catalan: soprano f
• Finnish: sopraano (fi)
• Georgian: სოპრანო (soṗrano)
• Hawaiian: kopolano
• Hungarian: szoprán (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sopran m

  Nynorsk: sopran m

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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

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
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} soprano
• 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)

VerbEdit

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 alsoEdit

• soprano on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

AnagramsEdit

• Proanos, pronaos

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CatalanEdit

NounEdit

soprano m (plural sopranos)

1. soprano

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FrenchEdit

NounEdit

soprano m (plural sopranos)

1. soprano

SynonymsEdit

• soprane

Further readingEdit

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

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

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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NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

soprano m (plural sopranos)

1. (Jersey, music) soprano

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

soprano m (plural sopranos)

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

NounEdit

soprano m f (plural sopranos)

1. soprano (person singing with a soprano voice)

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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

soprano m, f (plural sopranos)

1. soprano (singer)

NounEdit

soprano m (plural sopranos)

1. soprano (pitch)