allegretto

See also: allégretto and Allegretto

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian allegretto, diminutive form of allegro.

Adverb

allegretto (not comparable)

1. (music) To be played rather fast and lively.

Related terms

• allegrissimo
• allegro

Translations

musical direction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小快板 (zh) (xiǎokuàibǎn)

• Estonian: allegretto (et)
• French: allégretto (fr)
• German: allegretto (de)
• Greek: αλεγκρέτο (el) (alegkréto)
• Norwegian: allegretto (no)
• Polish: allegretto (pl)
• Portuguese: alegreto
• Romanian: allegretto (ro)
• Russian: аллегре́тто (ru) (allegrétto)
• Swedish: allegretto (sv)

Noun

allegretto (plural allegrettos)

1. (music) A movement in this time.
   • 1880, Edmund Gurney, The Power of Sound, page 99:

     It was only after the conception had received its fullest due, and the vast and complex organism its perfect development, that the certainty arose of an effect on human emotion comparable to that which was born when the opening bars of the allegretto in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony had been played for the first time, and the idea of them was from that moment alive and abroad in the world.

Translations

a movement that is to be played fast and lively

• French: allégretto (fr) m
• German: Allegretto n
• Polish: allegretto (pl) n
• Portuguese: alegreto m
• Romanian: allegretto (ro) m
• Russian: аллегре́тто (ru) n (allegrétto)
• Swedish: allegretto (sv) n

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.le.ɡʁɛ.to/, /a.le.ɡʁe.to/

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Adverb

allegretto

1. allegretto

Further reading

• “allegretto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

From allegro +‎ -etto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.leˈɡret.to/
• Rhymes: -etto
• Hyphenation: al‧le‧grét‧to

Adverb

allegretto

1. (music) allegretto

Noun

allegretto m (plural allegretti)

1. Diminutive of allegro
2. (music) allegretto

Further reading

• allegretto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian allegretto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.lɛɡˈrɛt.tɔ/

Noun

allegretto m (plural allegretti)

1. (music) allegretto

Related terms

• allegra
• allegrament
• allegrija
• allegro
• allegru

 

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian allegretto.

Adverb

allegretto

1. (music) allegretto

Noun

allegretto m (definite singular allegrettoen, indefinite plural allegrettoar, definite plural allegrettoane)

1. (music) an allegretto

Usage notes

• Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically neuter.

References

• “allegretto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegretto.

Adverb

allegretto (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of alegreto

Noun

allegretto m (plural allegretti)

1. Alternative spelling of alegreto

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegretto.

Adverb

allegretto

1. allegretto

Noun

allegretto n (uncountable)

1. allegretto

Declension

declension of allegretto (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) allegretto	allegrettoul
genitive/dative	(unui) allegretto	allegrettoului
vocative	allegrettoule