glissando
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian glissando.
Noun
glissando (countable and uncountable, plural glissandi or glissandos or glissandoes)
- (music) Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
- A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.
Derived terms
Translations
musical term
Verb
glissando (third-person singular simple present glissandos, present participle glissandoing, simple past and past participle glissandoed)
- (music) To play with a glissando or sliding effect.
Further reading
French
Noun
glissando m (plural glissandos)
Further reading
- “glissando”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian glissando.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
glissando
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | glissando | glissandók |
| accusative | glissandót | glissandókat |
| dative | glissandónak | glissandóknak |
| instrumental | glissandóval | glissandókkal |
| causal-final | glissandóért | glissandókért |
| translative | glissandóvá | glissandókká |
| terminative | glissandóig | glissandókig |
| essive-formal | glissandoként | glissandókként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | glissandóban | glissandókban |
| superessive | glissandón | glissandókon |
| adessive | glissandónál | glissandóknál |
| illative | glissandóba | glissandókba |
| sublative | glissandóra | glissandókra |
| allative | glissandóhoz | glissandókhoz |
| elative | glissandóból | glissandókból |
| delative | glissandóról | glissandókról |
| ablative | glissandótól | glissandóktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
glissandóé | glissandóké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
glissandóéi | glissandókéi |
| Possessive forms of glissando | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | glissandóm | glissandóim |
| 2nd person sing. | glissandód | glissandóid |
| 3rd person sing. | glissandója | glissandói |
| 1st person plural | glissandónk | glissandóink |
| 2nd person plural | glissandótok | glissandóitok |
| 3rd person plural | glissandójuk | glissandóik |
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Italian
Verb
glissando
Adverb
glissando
- in the style of a glissando
Noun
glissando m (invariable)