different between portamento vs legato

English

Etymology

From Italian portamento, from portare (“bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??t??m?nt??/

Noun

portamento (plural portamentos or portamenti)

1. (music) A smooth, gliding transition from one note to another; used especially with stringed instruments, and sometimes on brass.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 945:

     The music was feral, Eastern in scale, flattened seconds and sixths, and a kind of fretless portamento between

Translations

Italian

Etymology

portare, portarsi +? -mento

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /por.ta?men.to/

Noun

portamento m (plural portamenti)

1. bearing, carriage, deportment

Anagrams

• promettano

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian legato, past participle of legare (“to tie up, tie together, to bind”), learned borrowing from Latin lig? (“tie, bind”). Doublet of ligate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: l?-gä?t?, IPA^(key): /l????.t??/
• (US) enPR: l?-gä?t?, IPA^(key): /l????.to?/
• Rhymes: -??t??
• Hyphenation: le?ga?to

Adverb

legato (not comparable)

1. (music) Smoothly, in a connected manner.

   Antonyms: portato, staccato

Related terms

• legatissimo

Translations

Noun

legato (countable and uncountable, plural legatos)

1. (music) A style of performance characterized by smoothly connected notes.
2. (music) A passage that is played legato.

Translations

Anagrams

• Goleta, gelato

Esperanto

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

legato (accusative singular legaton, plural legatoj, accusative plural legatojn)

1. singular present nominal passive participle of legi

Etymology 2

From Latin legatus.

Noun

legato (accusative singular legaton, plural legatoj, accusative plural legatojn)

1. (Catholicism) legate

Etymology 3

From Italian legato.

Noun

legato (uncountable, accusative legaton)

1. (music) legato

French

Etymology

From Italian legato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?.?a.to/

Noun

legato m (plural legatos)

1. (music) legato

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??a.to/

Etymology 1

From legare.

Adjective

legato (feminine legata, masculine plural legati, feminine plural legate)

1. awkward, stiff
2. linked, connected, tied
3. close, attached, involved

Verb

legato m (feminine singular legata, masculine plural legati, feminine plural legate)

1. past participle of legare

Further reading

• legato¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

From Latin l?g?tus.

Noun

legato m (plural legati)

1. legate
2. legacy, bequest, background

Derived terms

• legato pontificio
• prelegato

Further reading

• legato² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• gelato, tegola

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /le???a?.to?/, [??e???ä?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /le??a.to/, [l?????t??]

Noun

l?g?t?

1. dative/ablative singular of l?g?tus

Participle

l?g?t?

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of l?g?tus