allegro

From Italian allegro.

• IPA^(key): (US) /əˈlɛɡɹoʊ/, /əˈleɪɡɹoʊ/

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allegro (plural allegros)

1. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto.
2. (music, more, traditionally) An expressive mark indicating that a passage is to be played in a lively or happy manner, not necessarily quickly.
3. (music) A passage having this mark.
   • 1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “Subtranscendental”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, book the second (In the Temple), page 116:

     And what mean these outbursts and objurgations of his, you will ask; these suggestions, furtive, rhapsodical, mystical; this furibund allegro about Money, Mediums, and Bohemia; [...]

allegro (not comparable)

1. (music) played in a quick, lively tempo

allegro (not comparable)

1. (music) in a quick and lively manner

Italian allegro

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlːe(ː)ɡro/, [ˈɑ̝lːe̞(ː)ɡro̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːeɡro
• Syllabification^(key): al‧leg‧ro
• Hyphenation^(key): al‧leg‧ro

allegro

1. (music) allegro (tempo mark; passage with this mark)

allegro

1. (music) allegro (in a quick and lively manner)

• allégro (post-1990 spelling)

Borrowed from Italian allegro, itself borrowed from French allègre.

• IPA^(key): /a.le.ɡʁo/

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allegro m (plural allegros)

1. allegro

allegro

1. allegro

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

• IPA^(key): /alˈle.ɡro/, /alˈlɛ.ɡro/^[1]
• Rhymes: -eɡro, -ɛɡro
• Hyphenation: al‧lé‧gro, al‧lè‧gro

Borrowed from French allègre, from Latin alacer (“lively; happy, cheerful”). Compare the doublet alacre.

allegro (feminine allegra, masculine plural allegri, feminine plural allegre, superlative allegrissimo)

1. cheerful
2. mirthful

allegro

1. first-person singular present indicative of allegrare

• allergo-, gallerò, legarlo

From Italian allegro.

allegro

1. (music) allegro

allegro m (definite singular allegroen, indefinite plural allegroar, definite plural allegroane)

1. (music) an allegro

• Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically neuter.^[1]

• “allegro” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegro. Doublet of alegre.

allegro (invariable)

1. alternative form of alegro

allegro (not comparable)

1. alternative form of alegro

allegro m (plural allegri)

1. alternative form of alegro

Unadapted borrowing from Italian allegro.

allegro

1. allegro

allegro n (uncountable)

1. allegro