ostinato
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Italian ostinato (“stubborn”). Doublet of obstinate.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɒstɪˈnɑtoʊ/[1]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]ostinato (plural ostinatos or ostinati)
- (music) A piece of melody, a chord progression, or a bass figure that is repeated over and over as a musical accompaniment.
- 2009 January 26, Anthony Tommasini, “Pricking Up the Ears to Listen for Echoes of California”, in New York Times[1]:
- The piece moves in alluring spans of swirling figures, jagged lines and pointillistic outbursts, often prodded forward by ostinatos in the perky piano.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “ostinato”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian ostinato, from Latin obstinātus (“firmly set, fixed”). Doublet of obstina.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ostinato (accusative singular ostinaton, plural ostinatoj, accusative plural ostinatojn)
Related terms
[edit]- ripetfrazo (“riff”)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian ostinato.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ostinato
Declension
[edit]Inflection of ostinato (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | ostinato | ostinatot | |
genitive | ostinaton | ostinatojen | |
partitive | ostinatoa | ostinatoja | |
illative | ostinatoon | ostinatoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | ostinato | ostinatot | |
accusative | nom. | ostinato | ostinatot |
gen. | ostinaton | ||
genitive | ostinaton | ostinatojen | |
partitive | ostinatoa | ostinatoja | |
inessive | ostinatossa | ostinatoissa | |
elative | ostinatosta | ostinatoista | |
illative | ostinatoon | ostinatoihin | |
adessive | ostinatolla | ostinatoilla | |
ablative | ostinatolta | ostinatoilta | |
allative | ostinatolle | ostinatoille | |
essive | ostinatona | ostinatoina | |
translative | ostinatoksi | ostinatoiksi | |
abessive | ostinatotta | ostinatoitta | |
instructive | — | ostinatoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]ostinato m (plural ostinatos)
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin obstinātus.
Adjective
[edit]ostinato (feminine ostinata, masculine plural ostinati, feminine plural ostinate, superlative ostinatissimo)
Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]ostinato m (plural ostinati, feminine ostinata)
- a stubborn or obstinate person
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]ostinato (feminine ostinata, masculine plural ostinati, feminine plural ostinate)
Further reading
[edit]- ostinato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Italian ostinato.
Adverb
[edit]ostinato
Noun
[edit]ostinato n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]singular only | indefinite | definite |
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nominative-accusative | ostinato | ostinatoul |
genitive-dative | ostinato | ostinatoului |
vocative | ostinatoule |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian ostinato. Doublet of obstinado.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ostinato m (plural ostinatos)
Further reading
[edit]- “ostinato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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