mordente

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English

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Etymology

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Italian

Noun

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mordente (plural mordentes)

  1. (music) An embellishment resembling a trill.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mordente”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /morˈdɛn.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnte
  • Hyphenation: mor‧dèn‧te

Participle

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mordente (plural mordenti)

  1. present participle of mordere

Adjective

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mordente (plural mordenti)

  1. biting

Noun

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mordente m (plural mordenti)

  1. mordant, base
  2. bite (figurative)
  3. drive (personality)

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Latin

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Participle

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mordente

  1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of mordēns