improviso
See also: improvisó
English
Etymology
Latin improvisus (“unforeseen”); compare Italian improvviso.
Adjective
improviso (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Not prepared beforehand; unpremeditated; extemporaneous.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “improviso”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Catalan
Verb
improviso
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Galician
Verb
improviso
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) imprōvīsō
- dative masculine singular of imprōvīsus
- dative neuter singular of imprōvīsus
- ablative masculine singular of imprōvīsus
- ablative neuter singular of imprōvīsus
References
- “improviso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Portuguese
Noun
improviso m (plural improvisos)
- improvisation (act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, without prior preparation)
- makeshift (a temporary, usually insubstantial, substitution for something else)
Verb
improviso
Spanish
Verb
improviso
- First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of improvisar.
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