portamento

English

Etymology

From Italian portamento, from portare (“bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɔːtəˈmɛntəʊ/

Noun

portamento (plural portamentos or portamenti)

1. (music) A smooth, gliding transition from one note to another; used especially with stringed instruments, and sometimes on brass.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 945:

     The music was feral, Eastern in scale, flattened seconds and sixths, and a kind of fretless portamento between

Derived terms

• portamentoed

Translations

sliding tone used in music

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滑音 (zh) (huáyīn)

• Finnish: portamento, portaattomasti liukuva sävel
• French: port de voix (fr) m
• Greek: πορταμέντο (el) n (portaménto)
• Polish: portamento (pl) n

Italian

Etymology

From portare, portarsi +‎ -mento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /por.taˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: por‧ta‧mén‧to

Noun

portamento m (plural portamenti)

1. bearing, carriage, deportment

Further reading

• portamento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• promettano