arpeggio

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Italian arpeggio, from arpeggiare (“to play a harp”). === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹˈpɛ.d͡ʒi.oʊ/ === Noun === arpeggio (plural arpeggios or arpeggi) (music) The notes of a chord played individually instead of simultaneously, usually moving from lowest to highest. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== broken chord === Verb === arpeggio (third-person singular simple present arpeggios, present participle arpeggioing, simple past and past participle arpeggioed) (transitive) To play (a chord) as an arpeggio; to play (a piece of music) with arpeggios. Synonym: arpeggiate 1819, Abraham Rees (ed.), The Cyclopædia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 14, entry “Fingering on Keyed Instruments,”[2] In practising quick passages, the fingers should be lifted up with a spring, and not allowed to hang on the keys, till wanted again, unless in arpeggioing chords, or in passages of expression. (intransitive) To produce arpeggios; to produce sounds resembling arpeggios. (ambitransitive, figurative) To move (the hand or fingers) against a surface as if playing arpeggios on a keyboard; to touch different points in succession along a surface. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === geropiga == Danish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Italian arpeggio === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ɑˈpɛdɕo] === Noun === arpeggio c (singular definite arpeggioen, plural indefinite arpeggioer) (music) arpeggio ==== Declension ==== == Finnish == === Etymology === Italian arpeggio === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɑrpeɡːio/, [ˈɑ̝rpe̞ɡ̚ˌɡio̞] IPA(key): /ˈɑrped(ː)ʒio/, [ˈɑ̝rpe̞dˌ(d)ʒio̞] Rhymes: -io Syllabification(key): ar‧peg‧gi‧o Hyphenation(key): ar‧peg‧gio === Noun === arpeggio (music) arpeggio ==== Declension ==== == Italian == === Etymology 1 === Deverbal from arpeggiare +‎ -o, from arpa. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /arˈped.d͡ʒo/ Rhymes: -eddʒo Hyphenation: ar‧pég‧gio ==== Noun ==== arpeggio m (plural arpeggi) arpeggio ===== Descendants ===== → English: arpeggio → French: arpège → Persian: آرپژ (ârpež) → Turkish: arpej → Portuguese: arpejo → Russian: арпе́джио (arpédžio) → Kazakh: арпеджио (arpedjio) → Spanish: arpegio === Etymology 2 === From arpeggiare +‎ -io (frequentative). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ar.pedˈd͡ʒi.o/ Rhymes: -io Hyphenation: ar‧peg‧gì‧o ==== Noun ==== arpeggio m (plural arpeggii) (uncommon) continuous arpeggiation === Etymology 3 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /arˈped.d͡ʒo/ Rhymes: -eddʒo Hyphenation: ar‧pég‧gio ==== Verb ==== arpeggio first-person singular present indicative of arpeggiare === Anagrams === pareggio, pareggiò, peggiora, piaggerò, poggerai, poggiare == Polish == === Alternative forms === arpedżio === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Italian arpeggio. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /arˈpɛ.d͡ʐjɔ/ Rhymes: -ɛd͡ʐjɔ Syllabification: ar‧pegg‧io === Noun === arpeggio n (related adjective arpedżiowy) (music) arpeggio (notes of a chord played individually instead of simultaneously, usually moving from lowest to highest) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === arpeggio in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN arpeggio in Polish dictionaries at PWN == Portuguese == === Noun === arpeggio m (plural arpeggios) (uncommon) alternative form of arpejo === Further reading === “arpeggio”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026