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allegro (plural allegros)
- (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto.
- (music, more, traditionally) An expressive mark indicating that a passage is to be played in a lively or happy manner, not necessarily quickly.
- (music) A passage having this mark.
1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “Subtranscendental”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, book the second (In the Temple), page 116:
And what mean these outbursts and objurgations of his, you will ask; these suggestions, furtive, rhapsodical, mystical; this furibund allegro about Money, Mediums, and Bohemia; [...]
tempo mark indicating a quick, lively tempo
allegro (not comparable)
- (music) played in a quick, lively tempo
allegro (not comparable)
- (music) in a quick and lively manner
allegro
Inflection of allegro (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | allegro | allegrot | |
genitive | allegron | allegrojen | |
partitive | allegroa | allegroja | |
illative | allegroon | allegroihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | allegro | allegrot | |
accusative | nom. | allegro | allegrot |
gen. | allegron | ||
genitive | allegron | allegrojen | |
partitive | allegroa | allegroja | |
inessive | allegrossa | allegroissa | |
elative | allegrosta | allegroista | |
illative | allegroon | allegroihin | |
adessive | allegrolla | allegroilla | |
ablative | allegrolta | allegroilta | |
allative | allegrolle | allegroille | |
essive | allegrona | allegroina | |
translative | allegroksi | allegroiksi | |
abessive | allegrotta | allegroitta | |
instructive | — | allegroin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
allegro
Borrowed from Italian allegro, itself borrowed from French allègre.
allegro m (plural allegros)
allegro
- “allegro”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Borrowed from French allègre, from Latin alacer (“lively; happy, cheerful”). Compare the doublet alacre.
allegro (feminine allegra, masculine plural allegri, feminine plural allegre, superlative allegrissimo)
allegro
- ^ allegro in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
allegro
allegro m (definite singular allegroen, indefinite plural allegroar, definite plural allegroane)
- Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically neuter.[1]
- “allegro” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- ^ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (in Norwegian, retrieved 12.21.20)
Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegro. Doublet of alegre.
allegro (invariable)
- Alternative form of alegro
allegro (not comparable)
- Alternative form of alegro
allegro m (plural allegri)
- Alternative form of alegro
Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegro.
allegro
allegro n (uncountable)
declension of allegro (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) allegro | allegroul |
genitive/dative | (unui) allegro | allegroului |
vocative | allegroule |