Piano

Borrowed from Italian Piano.

Piano (plural Pianos)

1. A surname from Italian.

• Giuoco Piano

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Piano is the 30442^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 767 individuals. Piano is most common among White (72.1%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (22.16%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Piano”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• NAIOP

Borrowed from Italian piano, from Latin plānus.

• IPA^(key): /piˈaːno/

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Piano n (strong, genitive Pianos, plural Pianos)

1. (chiefly literary or exalted) piano (musical instrument)

   Synonym: Klavier

• Although Klavier is the commoner word in all contexts, it would not be unusual to say of a renowned pianist:

Er ist ein Meister am Piano. ― He’s a master of the piano. However, it would be likely to sound odd if the word were used in non-professional contexts, such as referring to a piano in one’s living-room or to one’s child’s piano lessons.

• Pianist

Piano n (strong, genitive Pianos, plural Pianos or Piani)

1. (music) soft passage, piano passage

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese piano, from Italian pianoforte.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pʰiˈaːno/, /pʰiˈano/, /piˈaːno/, /piˈano/
• Rhymes: -aːno, -ano
• Syllabification: Pi‧a‧no

Piano m (plural Pianos)

1. (music) piano

   Er spield Piano.

   He plays piano.

Topographic surname for someone who lived in a plain, from piano (“plain, flatland”).

Piano m or f by sense

1. a surname

• opina, paion

Piano f (plural Pianos)

1. piano