glissando

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian glissando.

Noun

glissando (plural glissandi or glissandos or glissandoes)

  1. (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).
  2. 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.

Translations

Verb

glissando (third-person singular simple present glissandos, present participle glissandoing, simple past and past participle glissandoed)

  1. (music) To play with a glissando or sliding effect.

Further reading

French

Noun

glissando m (plural glissandos)

  1. (music) glissando

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian glissando.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡlisːɒndoː] (phonetic respelling: glisszandó)
  • Hyphenation: glis‧san‧do
  • Rhymes: -doː

Noun

glissando

  1. (music) glissando (a continuous sliding from one pitch to another)

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

  1. 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

  1. gerund of glissare

Adverb

glissando

  1. in the style of a glissando

Noun

glissando m (invariable)

  1. glissando
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