bassetto

English

Etymology

From Italian bassetto.

Noun

bassetto (plural bassettos)

  1. (music) A tenor viol or small bass viol.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bassetto”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Etymology

From basso +‎ -etto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /basˈset.to/
  • Rhymes: -etto
  • Hyphenation: bas‧sét‧to

Noun

bassetto m (plural bassetti)

  1. (informal) shrimp (small person)
  2. (music) basset horn (properly corno di bassetto)

Further reading

  • bassetto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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