capriccio
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian capriccio. Doublet of caprice.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kəˈpɹiːt͡ʃoʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]capriccio (plural capriccios or capricci)
- A sudden and unexpected or fantastic motion; a caper (from same etymology, see below); a gambol; a prank, a trick.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prank
- 1873, Charles Reade, chapter VII, in A Simpleton: A Story of the Day […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
- She used to smile at my capriccios; and once she kissed me—actually.
- A fantastical thing or work.
- Synonyms: caprice; see also Thesaurus:whim
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 239, column 2:
- Will this Capricio hold in thee, art ſure?
- 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 10:
- If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am reſolv’d to purſue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Buſineſs.
- 1827, [Benjamin Disraeli], chapter IX, in Vivian Grey, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book V, page 174:
- “Poor fellow!” thought Vivian, “I fear, with all thy wit and pleasantry, thou art, after all, but one of those capriccios which Nature sometimes indulges in, merely to show how superior is her accustomed order to eccentricities, even accompanied with rare powers.”
- (painting) A type of Renaissance landscape painting that places particular works of architecture in an unusual and often fictional setting.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- Above the drawing-room fireplace there was a painting by Guardi, a capriccio of Venice in a gilt rococo frame […]
- 2014, Ettore Maria Mazzola, “Capricci Capricciosi”, in Lucien Steil, editor, The Architectural Capriccio: Memory, Fantasy and Invention, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 385:
- Capricci, far from being decorative images without meaning, probably express the sensation that the world, even though built by man with pretensions of eternity, is instead subjugated to the dominance of time […]
- (music) A piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character.
- 1822, [Thomas Love Peacock], Maid Marian, London: […] T[homas] Hookham […], pages 66–67:
- The friar and Matilda had often sung duets together, and had been accustomed to the baron’s chiming in with a stormy capriccio, which was usually charmed into silence by some sudden turn in the witching melodies of Matilda.
- 1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Renaissance at Charleroi”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:
- The stillness returned, save for the little voices of the night—the owl's recitative, the capriccio of the crickets, the concerto of the frogs in the grass.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]piece of music
References
[edit]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “capriccio”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Further reading
[edit]- capriccio (art) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- capriccio (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Either from Dutch capriccio or from English capriccio, ultimately from Italian capriccio.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: cap‧ri‧ccio
Noun
[edit]capriccio (plural capriccios)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier caporiccio, from capo + riccio, literally “curly head”. People believed that curly hair was a sign for a capricious and unruly character.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]capriccio m (plural capricci)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- capriccio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Upper Sorbian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Capriccio.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]capriccio n or m inan
Usage notes
[edit]Although the original gender in German is masculine, it was necessary to convert it to neuter to make it declinable, but the masculine gender is still used colloquially.
Declension
[edit]Neuter
Declension of capriccio (neuter hard stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | capriccio | capriccii | capriccia |
genitive | capriccia | capricciow | capricciow |
dative | capricciu | capricciomaj | capricciam |
accusative | capriccio | capriccii | capriccia |
instrumental | capricciom | capricciomaj | capricciemi |
locative | capricciu | capricciomaj | capricciach |
vocative | capriccio | capriccii | capriccia |
Masculine (colloquial)
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
References
[edit]- “capriccio” in Soblex
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English doublets
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English terms with quotations
- en:Painting
- en:Music
- Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch
- Afrikaans terms borrowed from English
- Afrikaans terms derived from English
- Afrikaans terms derived from Italian
- Afrikaans lemmas
- Afrikaans nouns
- af:Music
- Italian compound terms
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ittʃo
- Rhymes:Italian/ittʃo/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Music
- it:Painting
- Upper Sorbian terms borrowed from German
- Upper Sorbian terms derived from German
- Upper Sorbian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Upper Sorbian/it͡sjɔ
- Rhymes:Upper Sorbian/it͡sjɔ/3 syllables
- Upper Sorbian lemmas
- Upper Sorbian nouns
- Upper Sorbian neuter nouns
- Upper Sorbian masculine nouns
- Upper Sorbian nouns with multiple genders
- Upper Sorbian inanimate nouns
- hsb:Music
- Upper Sorbian neuter hard stem nouns