improviso

From Latin improvisus (“unforeseen”); compare Italian improvviso.

improviso (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Not prepared beforehand; unpremeditated; extemporaneous.
   • a. 1784, Samuel Johnson, "Improviso Translation of the following lines of M. Benserade A Son Lit"

• “improviso”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

improviso

1. first-person singular present indicative of improvisar

improviso

1. first-person singular present indicative of improvisar

• inprōvīsō

imprōvīsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of imprōvīsus

• dē imprōvīsō

• “improviso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• Hyphenation: im‧pro‧vi‧so

Borrowed from Latin imprōvīsus (“unforeseen”).

improviso m (plural improvisos)

1. improvisation (act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, without prior preparation)
2. makeshift (a temporary, usually insubstantial, substitution for something else)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

improviso

1. first-person singular present indicative of improvisar

• IPA^(key): /impɾoˈbiso/ [ĩm.pɾoˈβ̞i.so]
• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: im‧pro‧vi‧so

From Latin imprōvīsus.

improviso (feminine improvisa, masculine plural improvisos, feminine plural improvisas)

1. unannounced; out of the blue

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

improviso

1. first-person singular present indicative of improvisar

• “improviso”, 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