sotto

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See also: sótto and sotto-

English

Etymology

Ellipsis of sotto voce.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

sotto (not comparable)

  1. Ellipsis of sotto voce.
    • 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104:
      Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto.
    • 2006 October 2nd, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “Pilot”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27):
      Wolowitz:   Énchanté, mademoiselle. Howard Wolowitz, Cal Tech department of applied physics. You may be familiar with some of my work – – it’s currently toodling around the surface of Mars.
      Penny:   Hi. Penny.
      Wolowitz:   You smell wonderful. What is that scent you’re wearing?
      Penny:   It’s called b.o.
      Wolowitz:   Ah. Hence the shower, of course. Leonard, where have you been hiding this one? She’s charming.
      Sheldon:   (SOTTO, TO LEONARD)   Oh, he’s good.

Translations

Adjective

sotto (not comparable)

  1. Ellipsis of sotto voce.
    • 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 237:
      Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.
    • 2008, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child, page 192:
      The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto, intimate.

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Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub.[1] Ultimately from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo. Cognate to French sous.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsot.to/
  • Rhymes: -otto
  • Hyphenation: sót‧to

Preposition

sotto

  1. under, beneath, underneath
  2. below, south of

Adverb

sotto

  1. down
  2. underneath
  3. below

Antonyms

Noun

sotto (invariable)

  1. bottom

Derived terms

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References

  1. ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

sotto

  1. Rōmaji transcription of そっと

Maquiritari

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

sotto

  1. person, human
  2. Maquiritari speaker, Ye'kwana, Maquiritari
  3. twenty

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sotto”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ssoto”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ssoto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “so’to”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin subtus, from sub. Cognate to Italian sotto and French sous.

Preposition

sotto

  1. below
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