allegretto

Borrowed from Italian allegretto, diminutive form of allegro.

allegretto (not comparable)

1. (music) To be played rather fast and lively.

• allegrissimo
• allegro

allegretto (plural allegrettos)

1. (music) A movement in this time.
   • 1880, Edmund Gurney, The Power of Sound, page 99:

     It was only after the conception had received its fullest due, and the vast and complex organism its perfect development, that the certainty arose of an effect on human emotion comparable to that which was born when the opening bars of the allegretto in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony had been played for the first time, and the idea of them was from that moment alive and abroad in the world.

Italian allegretto

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlːeɡretːo/,
• Rhymes: -etːo
• Hyphenation^(key): al‧leg‧ret‧to

allegretto

1. (music) allegretto (tempo mark; passage with this mark)

allegretto

1. (music) allegretto (in a rather fast and lively manner)

Borrowed from Italian.

• IPA^(key): /a.le.ɡʁɛ.to/ ~ /a.le.ɡʁe.to/

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allegretto

1. allegretto

• “allegretto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegretto.

allegretto

1. (music) allegretto

   Synonym: sedikit cepat

• “allegretto” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From allegro +‎ -etto.

• IPA^(key): /al.leˈɡret.to/
• Rhymes: -etto
• Hyphenation: al‧le‧grét‧to

allegretto

1. (music) allegretto

allegretto m (plural allegretti)

1. diminutive of allegro
2. (music) allegretto

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

Borrowed from Italian allegretto.

• IPA^(key): /al.lɛɡˈrɛt.tɔ/

allegretto m (plural allegretti)

1. (music) allegretto

From Italian allegretto.

allegretto

1. (music) allegretto

allegretto m (definite singular allegrettoen, indefinite plural allegrettoar, definite plural allegrettoane)

1. (music) an allegretto

• Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically neuter.^[1]

• “allegretto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegretto.

allegretto (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of alegreto

allegretto m (plural allegretti)

1. Alternative spelling of alegreto

Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegretto.

allegretto

1. allegretto

allegretto n (uncountable)

1. allegretto