traverso

See also: Traverso and traversò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian traverso.

Noun

traverso (plural traversos)

1. (music) A transverse flute of the Baroque period, made in three or four sections with a conical bore from the head joint down.
   • 2007 October 29, James R. Oestreich, “Early-Music Maestros Juilliard Plans”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The historical range will be confined basically to the 17th and 18th centuries, Mr. Polisi added, because the Baroque and Classical repertory allows students to transfer their skills between instruments, with, say, conventional string players adapting to gut strings and Baroque bows, and modern flutists to wooden traversos.

Translations

instrument

• Finnish: barokkihuilu, traverso
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Anagrams

• at rovers

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French traverse, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Traverse, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian traversa.

Noun

traverso (plural traversi)

1. (architecture) crossbar, beam
2. (railway) sleeper

Derived terms

• traverseto (“bracket”)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /traˈvɛr.so/

Etymology 1

From Latin trānsversus.

Adjective

1. transversal, transverse

   Synonym: trasversale

2. oblique

   Synonym: obliquo

Derived terms

• flauto traverso

Noun

traverso m (plural traversi)

1. width

   Synonym: larghezza

2. (nautical) beam

Derived terms

• attraverso
• di traverso
• per vie traverse
• traversino

 

Related terms

• traversa
• traversare

Etymology 2

Verb

traverso

1. first-person singular present of traversare

Anagrams

• sterravo

Further reading

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

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Venetian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Italian attraverso

Preposition

traverso

1. across