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English
Etymology
Ellipsis of sotto voce.
Pronunciation
Adverb
sotto (not comparable)
- Ellipsis of sotto voce.
- 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104:
- Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto.
- 2006 October 2nd, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “Pilot”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27):
- Wolowitz: Énchanté, mademoiselle. Howard Wolowitz, Cal Tech department of applied physics. You may be familiar with some of my work – – it’s currently toodling around the surface of Mars.
Penny: Hi. Penny.
Wolowitz: You smell wonderful. What is that scent you’re wearing?
Penny: It’s called b.o.
Wolowitz: Ah. Hence the shower, of course. Leonard, where have you been hiding this one? She’s charming.
Sheldon: (SOTTO, TO LEONARD) Oh, he’s good.
Translations
music, informal: sotto voce (adverb)
— see sotto voce Adjective
sotto (not comparable)
- Ellipsis of sotto voce.
- 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 237:
- Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest , Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 7:‘Assuming these board scores are accurate reflectors of true capacity in this case,’ Academic Affairs says, his high voice serious and sotto, […]
2008, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child, page 192:The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto, intimate.
Translations
music, informal: sotto voce (adjective)
— see sotto voce Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub. Ultimately from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo. Cognate to French sous.
Pronunciation
Preposition
sotto
- under, beneath, underneath
- below, south of
Adverb
sotto
- down
- underneath
- below
Antonyms
Noun
sotto (invariable)
- bottom
Derived terms
References
- ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
sotto
- Rōmaji transcription of そっと
Neapolitan
Etymology
From Latin subtus, from sub. Cognate to Italian sotto and French sous.
Preposition
sotto
- below
Ye'kwana
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *wɨtoto (“person”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sotto (possessed sottoi)
- person, human
- Ye'kwana speaker, Ye'kwana, Maquiritari
Numeral
sotto
- (as a component in other numerals) twenty
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sotto”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 113
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ssoto”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “ssoto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “so’to”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN