different between sotto vs whisper

English

Etymology

Ellipsis of sotto voce.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??t??/, /?s?t??/, [?sot?o]

Adverb

sotto (not comparable)

1. Ellipsis of sotto voce
   • 1978–81, David Henderson, ?Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104:

     Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto.

   • 2006 October 2nd, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “Pilot”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27):

     Wolowitz:   Énchanté, mademoiselle. Howard Wolowitz, Cal Tech department of applied physics. You may be familiar with some of my work – – it’s currently toodling around the surface of Mars.
     Penny:   Hi. Penny.
     Wolowitz:   You smell wonderful. What is that scent you’re wearing?
     Penny:   It’s called b.o.
     Wolowitz:   Ah. Hence the shower, of course. Leonard, where have you been hiding this one? She’s charming.
     Sheldon:   (SOTTO, TO LEONARD)   Oh, he’s good.

Translations

Adjective

sotto (not comparable)

1. Ellipsis of sotto voce
   • 1978–81, David Henderson, ?Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 237:

     Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.

   • 2008, David Henderson, ?Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child, page 192:

     The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto, intimate.

Translations

Anagrams

• Totos, ottos, toots

Italian

Etymology

From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub. Ultimately from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo. Cognate to French sous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sot.to/
• Rhymes: -otto

Preposition

sotto

1. under, beneath, underneath
2. below, south of

Adverb

sotto

1. down
2. underneath
3. below

Antonyms

• sopra

Noun

sotto (invariable)

1. bottom

Derived terms

References

Anagrams

• tosto, tostò

Japanese

Romanization

sotto

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Maquiritari

Alternative forms

• (De'kwana): ssoto
• (historical spelling): so'to, So'to

Noun

sotto

1. true person, human, where only speakers of Maquiritari are considered “truly” human
2. twenty

References

• Ed. Key, Mary Ritchie and Comrie, Bernard. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Carib (De'kwana).
• de Civrieux, Marc. Watunna.
• Cáceres, Natalia. Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye'kwana.

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin subtus, from sub. Cognate to Italian sotto and French sous.

Preposition

sotto

1. below

English

Etymology

From Middle English whisperen, from Old English hwisprian (“to mutter, murmur, whisper”), fromProto-Germanic *hwispr?n? (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”), from Proto-Indo-European *?weys-, *?wey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Dutch wisperen (“to whisper”), German Low German wispeln (“to whisper”), German wispern (“to mumble, whisper”). Related also to Danish hviske (“to whisper”), Swedish viska (“to whisper”), Norwegian hviske (“to whisper”), Icelandic hvískra and hvísla (“to whisper”). More at English whistle.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?(h)w?sp?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?(h)w?sp?/
• Rhymes: -?sp?(?)

Noun

whisper (plural whispers)

1. The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords.

   I spoke in a near whisper

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:

     "Now, look here, Jim Hawkins," he said, in a steady whisper, that was no more than audible.
2. (usually in the plural) A rumor.

   There are whispers of rebellion all around.

3. (figuratively) A faint trace or hint (of something).

   The soup had just a whisper of basil.

4. A low rustling sound, like that of the wind in leaves.
5. (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room.
   • 2002, Ralph Schroeder, The Social Life of Avatars (page 218)

     The invisibility of private interactions in the form of whispers resolved an ethical concern in the research but reduced our ability to gauge the volume of interaction […]

   • 2004, Caroline A. Haythornthwaite, Michelle M. Kazmer, Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education (page 179)

     Anyone logged in to the chat room can click on an individual name, highlighting it, and send a message — a whisper — that will be seen only by the selected person.

Derived terms

• stage whisper
• whisper campaign
• whisperous
• whispersome
• whispery

Translations

Verb

whisper (third-person singular simple present whispers, present participle whispering, simple past and past participle whispered)

1. (intransitive) To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.
2. (transitive) To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.
   • 1692, Richard Bentley, A Confutation of Atheism

     They might buzz and whisper it one to another.

3. (intransitive) To make a low, sibilant sound.

   • the hollow, whispering breeze

4. (intransitive) To speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.

   • All that hate me whisper together against me.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To address in a whisper, or low voice.

   • where gentlest breezes whisper souls distressed

6. (transitive, obsolete) To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.

Derived terms

• whisperer

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