different between arco vs pizzicato

English

Etymology

From Italian arco (“bow”). Doublet of arch and arc.

Adverb

arco (not comparable)

1. (music) A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.

Anagrams

• AOCR, Caro, Cora, RAOC, Roca, acro, acro-, ocra, orca

Chibcha

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Spanish arco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ko/

Noun

arco

1. (architecture) arch

References

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese arco, from Latin arcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?ko?/

Noun

arco m (plural arcos)

1. bow (weapon)
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 398:

     Et el tragía en sua mão h? arco, en que nõ auj?a madeyra, mays era todo feyto de coyros cruus et de neruos engrudidos per grãde arte et per grã maestría

     He was carrying a bow in his hand, not made of wood, but completely made with crude hides and glued tendons, with great art and great mastery

2. (geometry) arc
3. (architecture) arch
4. hoop (of a barrel)
5. each one of the circles of a water wheel
6. Moon's halo

Derived terms

• Arco
• arco da vella
• Arcos
• Fontarcade
• Fonte Arcada

References

• “arco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “arco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “arco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “arco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o- (“bow, arrow”).

Pronunciation

Noun

arco m (plural archi)

1. bow (weapon)

2. (music) bow (used to play string instruments)

3. (geometry) arc
4. (architecture) arch

Related terms

See also

• freccia f (weaponry)
• balestra f (weaponry)
• archetto m (weaponry)
• arcata f (architecture)
• volta f (architecture)
• curva f (by extension)
• curvatura f (by extension)
• gamma f
• ventaglio m
• spettro m
• schieramento m (politics)
• corso m (figuratively)
• periodo m (figuratively)

Anagrams

• acro, caro, ocra, orca, roca

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese arco, arquo (“arch, bow”), from Latin arcus (“bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o- (“bow, arrow”)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?a?.ku/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /?a?.ku/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a?.ko/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /?a?.ku/
• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /?ah.ku/

Noun

arco m (plural arcos)

1. (geometry) arc
2. arc, curve

   Synonym: curva

3. (architecture) arch
4. bow (weapon)

   Synonym: arco-e-flecha

5. bow (rod used to play stringed instruments)
6. (dentistry) archwire (orthodontic wire conforming to the alveolar or dental arch)
7. (ophthalmology) arcus (white band of cholesterol that forms at the edge of the cornea)

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

arco

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of arcar

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin arcus (whence English archery), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with English arc and arch.

Noun

arco m (plural arcos)

1. bow (weapon)

2. (music) bow (rod for an instrument)
3. (geometry) arc
4. (architecture) arch
5. (sports, Latin America) goal (structure)

Derived terms

See also

• flecha

Further reading

• “arco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Italian pizzicato, past participle of pizzicare (“to pluck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ts??k??to?/
• Hyphenation: piz?zi?ca?to

Adverb

pizzicato (not comparable)

1. (music) To be played by plucking the strings instead of using the bow.

   Synonym: pizz.

Antonyms

• arco

Translations

Noun

pizzicato (plural pizzicatos or pizzicati)

1. (music) A note that is played pizzicato

Italian

Verb

pizzicato m (feminine singular pizzicata, masculine plural pizzicati, feminine plural pizzicate)

1. past participle of pizzicare

Noun

pizzicato m (plural pizzicati)

1. (music) pizzicato

Anagrams

• capitozzi