piccolo

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Etymology

A piccolo.

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɪkələʊ/

Noun

piccolo (plural piccolos)

1. (music) An instrument similar to a flute, but smaller, and playing an octave higher.
2. A waiter's assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
   • 1910, Saki, ‘The Soul of Laploshka’, Reginald in Russia:

     as I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo – out of his two francs.

3. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 liters of fluid, 1/4 the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or snipe.

Derived terms

• piccoloist

Translations

musical instrument

Chinese: Mandarin: 短笛 (cmn) (duǎndí) Danish: piccolofløjte (da) c. Dutch: piccolo (nl) Finnish: piccolo (fi), piccolohuilu (fi) French: piccolo (fr) m. and f. German: Piccoloflöte (de) f. Hungarian: pikoló (hu)

Italian: ottavino (it) Japanese: ピッコロ (ja) Polish: piccolo (pl) Portuguese: flautim (pt) m. Russian: пикколо (ru) (píkkolo) n. Spanish: flautín (es) m., píccolo (es) m. Swahili: filimbi ndogo (sw)

bottle of champagne

Finnish: piccolo-pullo (fi), piccolo (fi)

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Spanish: flautín (es) m. Vietnamese: sáo nhỏ

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Danish

Etymology

From Italian piccolo (“small, little, young”).

Noun

piccolo c. (singular definite piccoloen, plural indefinite piccoloer)

1. bellboy, bellhop
2. office boy

Inflection

    Inflection of piccolo

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	piccolo	piccoloen	piccoloer	piccoloerne
genitive	piccolos	piccoloens	piccoloers	piccoloernes

Antonyms

• (female) piccoline

Related terms

• piccolofløjte

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Finnish

Noun

piccolo

1. piccolo (flute)
2. piccolo, snipe, quarter bottle (wine bottle)

Declension

Declension of piccolo (type palvelu) singular plural nominative piccolo piccolot genitive piccolon piccolojen piccoloiden piccoloitten partitive piccoloa piccoloja piccoloita accusative piccolo piccolon piccolot inessive piccolossa piccoloissa elative piccolosta piccoloista illative piccoloon piccoloihin adessive piccololla piccoloilla ablative piccololta piccoloilta allative piccololle piccoloille essive piccolona piccoloina translative piccoloksi piccoloiksi instructive – piccoloin abessive piccolotta piccoloitta comitative – piccoloineen

Synonyms

• (flute): piccolohuilu
• (bottle): piccolo-pullo

Anagrams

• lipoo, polio

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈpikːolo]

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pìc‧co‧lo

Etymology

picca

Adjective

piccolo m. (f. piccola, m plural piccoli, f plural piccole)

1. small.
2. little
3. young

Antonyms

• grande
• grosso

Synonyms

• piccino

Related terms

• piccolezza
• piccolo trumpet

See also

• micro-
• nano-