passacaglia

English

Alternative forms

• passacaille, passecaille

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian passacaglia, from Spanish pasacalle, from pasar (“to pass”) + calle (“street”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpasəˈkɑːlɪ.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑsəˈkɑljə/

Noun

passacaglia (countable and uncountable, plural passacaglias)

1. (music) A form of historical Spanish or Italian dance characterised by a serious nature, triple metre, and use of a ground bass.
2. (music, by extension) Any piece of classical music with similar characteristics.

Coordinate terms

• chaconne

Translations

historical Spanish dance

• Armenian: պասսակալիա (hy) (passakalia)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: cercavila (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帕薩卡利亞／帕萨卡利亚 (pàsàkǎlìyà), 帕薩卡里亞／帕萨卡里亚 (pàsàkǎlǐyà)

• Esperanto: pasakaljo
• Finnish: passacaglia
• French: passacaille (fr) f
• German: Passacaglia (de) f
• Greek: πασσακάλια (el) f (passakália)
• Italian: passacaglia f
• Japanese: パッサカリア (passakaria)
• Korean: 파사칼리아 (pasakallia)
• Latvian: pasakalja f
• Romanian: passacaglia (ro) f
• Russian: пассака́лья (ru) f (passakálʹja), пассака́лия (ru) f (passakálija)
• Spanish: pasacalle (es) m, pasacalles m
• Tagalog: pasakalye
• Ukrainian: пасака́лія f (pasakálija)
• Uzbek: passakalya

Italian

Alternative forms

• passacaglio m (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pasacalle, from pasar (“to pass”) + calle (“street”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpas.saˈkaʎ.ʎa/
• Rhymes: -aʎʎa
• Hyphenation: pas‧sa‧cà‧glia

Noun

passacaglia f (plural passacaglie)

1. (music) passacaglia (historical Spanish dance)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian passacaglia.

Noun

passacaglia f (uncountable)

1. passacaglia

Declension

declension of passacaglia (singular only)

	singular
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) passacaglia	passacaglia
genitive/dative	(unei) passacagli	passacaglii
vocative