mordente

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian

Noun

mordente (plural mordentes)

1. (music) An embellishment resembling a trill.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “mordente”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• dementor, entoderm, mentored

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Italian

Verb

mordente

1. present participle of mordere

Adjective

1. biting

Noun

mordente m (plural mordenti)

1. mordant, base
2. bite (figurative)
3. drive (personality)

Anagrams

• dormente
• tremendo

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) mordente

1. ablative masculine singular of mordēns
2. ablative feminine singular of mordēns
3. ablative neuter singular of mordēns