adagio

Borrowed from Italian adagio.

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɑːd͡ʒiəʊ/, /əˈdæd͡ʒiəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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adagio (plural adagios)

2. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully.
4. (music) A passage having this mark.
6. (dance) A male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts.

adagio (not comparable)

2. (music) Played rather slowly.

adagio (not comparable)

2. (music) Describing a passage having this mark.

Ultimately from Italian adagio.

• IPA^(key): /adaɡio/ [a.ð̞a.ɣ̞i.o]
• Rhymes: -io, -o
• Hyphenation: a‧da‧gi‧o

adagio (not comparable)

1. (music) adagio

adagio inan

1. (music) adagio

• “adagio”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “adagio”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): /aːˈdaː.dʒoː/, /aːˈdaː.(d)ʒi.oː/
• Hyphenation: ada‧gio

Learned borrowing from Latin adā̆giō.

adagio n (plural adagios, diminutive adagiootje n)

1. adage

   Synonym: adagium

Borrowed from Italian adagio.

adagio n (plural adagios, diminutive adagiootje n)

1. (music, dance) adagio

adagio

1. (music) adagio

adagio (not comparable)

1. (music) describing a passage having this mark

Declension of adagio
uninflected	adagio
inflected	adagio
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		adagio
indefinite	m./f. sing.	adagio
	n. sing.	adagio
	plural	adagio
definite		adagio
partitive		—

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Borrowed from Italian adagio.

• IPA^(key): /a.da(d)ʒ.jo/

• Audio:

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adagio

1. (music) adagio

adagio m (plural adagios)

1. (music) adagio

• “adagio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English adagio, from Italian adagio.

• IPA^(key): /aˈda.ɡjɔ/, /aˈda.d͡ʒɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: a‧da‧gio

adagio

1. adagio
   1. (music) a tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully
   2. (music) a passage having this mark
   3. (dance) a male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts

• IPA^(key): /aˈda.d͡ʒo/
• Rhymes: -adʒo
• Hyphenation: a‧dà‧gio

Univerbation of ad (“at”) +‎ agio (“ease”).

adagio (superlative adagissimo)

1. slowly

adagio m (plural adagi)

1. (music) adagio

• → Dutch: adagio
• → English: adagio
• → French: adagio
• → Norwegian Bokmål: adagio
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: adagio
• → Polish: adagio
• → Portuguese: adágio
• → Romanian: adagio
• → Spanish: adagio
• → Swedish: adagio

adagio

1. first-person singular present indicative of adagiare

Learned borrowing from Latin adā̆giō.

adagio m (plural adagi)

1. proverb, adage or saying

• aforismo
• proverbio
• apoftegma
• motto

adā̆giō f (genitive adā̆giōnis); third declension

1. alternative form of adā̆gium

Third-declension noun.

adā̆giō

1. dative/ablative singular of adā̆gium

• “adagio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• adagio in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Borrowed from Italian adagio (“slowly”).^[1]

adagio

1. (music) adagio

adagio m (definite singular adagioen, indefinite plural adagioer, definite plural adagioene)

1. (music) an adagio

• Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically neuter.^[2]

Borrowed from Italian adagio (“slowly”).^[1]

adagio

1. (music) adagio

adagio m (definite singular adagioen, indefinite plural adagioar, definite plural adagioane)

1. (music) an adagio

• Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically neuter.^[2]

• adadżjo (pre-reform orthography (1936))
• adadżio

Unadapted borrowing from Italian adagio.^[1][2] First attested in 1823.^[3]

• IPA^(key): /aˈda.d͡ʐjɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ad͡ʐjɔ
• Syllabification: a‧da‧gio

adagio n (indeclinable)

1. (music) adagio (a tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully)
2. (music) adagio (a passage having this mark)
3. (dance) adagio (a male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts)

Indeclinable, or rarely:

adagio (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (music) adagio (describing a passage having this mark)

adagio (not comparable)

1. (music) adagio (played rather slowly)

• adagio in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• adagio in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “adadżjo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “adadżjo”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 7
• “adagio”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish], 2022

Borrowed from Italian adagio.

adagio n (uncountable)

1. adagio

• IPA^(key): /aˈdaxjo/ [aˈð̞a.xjo]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -axjo
• Syllabification: a‧da‧gio

Borrowed from Italian adagio.

adagio

1. (music) adagio

adagio m (plural adagios)

1. (music) adagio

Learned borrowing from Latin adā̆giō.

adagio m (plural adagios)

1. adage (old saying)

• “adagio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Italian adagio.

adagio

1. (music) adagio (slowly)

adagio n

1. (music) adagio

• adagio in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈdahio/ [ʔɐˈd̪aː.hjo]
• Rhymes: -ahio
• Syllabification: a‧da‧gi‧o

adágió (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜑᜒᜌᜓ)

1. alternative spelling of adahiyo