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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
allegro (plural allegros)
- (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto.
- (music, more, traditionally) An expressive mark indicating that a passage is to be played in a lively or happy manner, not necessarily quickly.
- (music) A passage having this mark.
- 1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “Subtranscendental”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, OCLC 6412012, book the second (In the Temple), page 116:
- And what mean these outbursts and objurgations of his, you will ask; these suggestions, furtive, rhapsodical, mystical; this furibund allegro about Money, Mediums, and Bohemia; [...]
Translations[edit]
passage to be played in a quick, lively tempo
Adverb[edit]
allegro (not comparable)
- (music) played in a quick, lively tempo
Translations[edit]
Adjective[edit]
allegro (not comparable)
- (music) in a quick and lively manner
Translations[edit]
played in a quick, lively tempo
French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian allegro, itself borrowed from French allègre.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
allegro m (plural allegros)
Adverb[edit]
allegro
Further reading[edit]
- “allegro” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French allègre, from Latin alacer (“lively; happy, cheerful”). Compare the inherited doublet alacre.
Adjective[edit]
allegro (feminine singular allegra, masculine plural allegri, feminine plural allegre)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Greek: αλέγρος (alégros)
Anagrams[edit]
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
allegro
Noun[edit]
allegro m (definite singular allegroen, indefinite plural allegroar, definite plural allegroane)
Usage notes[edit]
- Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically neuter.[1]
References[edit]
- “allegro” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- ^ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (in Norwegian, retrieved 12.21.20)
Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian allegro. Doublet of alegre.
Adjective[edit]
allegro (plural allegro, comparable)
Adverb[edit]
allegro (not comparable)
Noun[edit]
allegro m (plural allegros)
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