piano
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Short form of pianoforte, from Italian piano (“soft”) + forte (“strong”). So named because older keyboard instruments, notably the harpsichord and the clavier, could not produce varied volumes.
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piano (plural pianos)
- (music) A keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings.
- The piano in his house takes up a lot of space.
- She has been taking lessons for many years and now plays the piano very well.
- He can play "Happy Birthday" on the piano.
- Most of the works by Frédéric Chopin are for the piano.
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- pianoforte (dated)
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piano
- (music) Soft. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, {p.}, to indicate lowering the volume of the music. In the pianoforte this is done by pressing the instrument's keys more lightly.
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- IPA: /piˈanɔ/
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piano f. (indefinite plural piano, definite singular pianoja, definite plural pianot)
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piano c. (plural piano's, diminutive pianootje)
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piano (plural pianoj, accusative singular pianon, accusative plural pianojn)
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piano
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Declension of piano (type valo)
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piano m. (plural pianos)
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From Latin planus.
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piano m. (f. piana, m plural piani, f plural piane)
- plane
- plain, soft
- penultimate accented
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piano m. (plural piani)
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piano
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piano (katakana ピアノ)
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piano n. (definite singular pianoet; indefinite plural pianoer; definite plural pianoa/pianoene)
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- Hyphenation: pi‧a‧no
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piano
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piano (comparative mais piano superlative o mais piano)
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piano m. (plural pianos)
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piano
- musical directive to play softly
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- IPA: /ˈpja̯.no/
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piano m. (plural pianos)
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piano n.
- a piano
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- English terms derived from Italian
- English nouns
- en:Musical instruments
- English adjectives
- en:Music
- Albanian nouns
- Albanian feminine nouns
- sq:Musical instruments
- Dutch nouns
- nl:Musical instruments
- Esperanto nouns
- eo:Musical instruments
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- fi:Musical instruments
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- fr:Musical instruments
- Italian terms derived from Latin
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- Italian nouns
- it:Musical instruments
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- ja:Musical instruments
- Norwegian nouns
- no:Musical instruments
- Portuguese adjectives
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- pt:Music
- Portuguese nouns
- pt:Musical instruments
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- es:Musical instruments
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