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Italian term Literal translation Definition A cappella: in chapel style: Sung with no (instrumental) accompaniment, has much harmonizing Aria: air: Piece of music, usually for a singer Aria di sorbetto: sorbet air: A short solo performed by a secondary character in the opera Arietta: little air: A short or light aria Arioso: airy A type of solo ...
(from the Italian Ballabile meaning "danceable") In ballet, a dance performed by the corps de ballet. The term Grand ballabile is used if nearly all participants (including principal characters) of a particular scene in a full-length work perform a large-scale dance. bar, or measure
Dilettante (in Italian means 'amateur') Ditto; Genoa after the city; Gonzo (in Italian means 'simpleton', 'diddled') Humanist (through French from Italian umanista) Inferno (in Italian means 'hell') Latrine (through Italian plural latrine from Latin lavatrina) Lido (in Italian means 'coast', usually 'sandy coast') Lipizzan (Italian: lipizzano)
Just like many other Romance languages, Italian verbs express distinct verbal aspects by means of analytic structures such as periphrases, rather than synthetic ones; the only aspectual distinction between two synthetic forms is the one between the imperfetto (habitual past tense) and the passato remoto (perfective past tense), although the ...
"Fischia il vento" ("The Wind Whistles") is an Italian popular song whose text was written in late 1943, at the inception of the Resistance. The tune is based on the Russian song " Katyusha ". Along with " Bella ciao " it is one of the most famous songs celebrating the Italian resistance , the anti-fascist movement that fought the forces that ...
Non Dimenticar" ("Do Not Forget") is the Italian construction for the informal imperative, "non" + infinitive. Originally titled "T'ho voluto bene" ("I loved you so much"), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it is a popular song with music by P. G. Redi ( Gino Redi , a.k.a. Luigi Pulci), the original Italian lyrics by Michele Galdieri, with English lyrics by Shelley ...
The equivalents of Italian amare, mettere, and morire ('love, put, die) are amà, mette, and morì. [2] The change of older /ndʒ/ to /ɲɲ/, such that magnemo 'we eat' corresponds to Italian mangiamo. [2] Isomorphism of certain third-person plural and first-person singular verb endings, such that ama may mean either 'he/she/it loves' or 'they ...
Ciabatta (/ tʃ ə ˈ b ɑː t ə,-ˈ b æ t-/, Italian: [tʃaˈbatta]; lit. ' slipper ') [1] is an Italian white bread created in 1982 [2] [3] by a baker in Adria, Veneto, in response to the popularity of French baguettes. [2] [3] Ciabatta is somewhat elongated, broad, and flat, and is baked in many variations, although unique for its alveolar ...