piccolo

See also: Piccolo

English

Etymology

A piccolo.

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɪkələʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɪkoloʊ/, /ˈpɪkəloʊ/, /ˈpɪkl̩oʊ/

Noun

piccolo (plural piccolos)

  1. (music) An instrument similar to a flute, but smaller, and playing an octave higher.
  2. A waiter's assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
    • 1910, Saki, ‘The Soul of Laploshka’, Reginald in Russia:
      as I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo – out of his two francs.
  3. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 liters of fluid, 1/4 the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or snipe.

Derived terms

Translations

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Danish

Etymology

From Italian piccolo (“small, little, young”).

Noun

piccolo c (singular definite piccoloen, plural indefinite piccoloer)

  1. bellboy, bellhop
  2. office boy

Inflection

Antonyms

  • piccolofløjte

Finnish

Etymology

From Italian piccolo.

Noun

piccolo

  1. Alternative spelling of pikkolo.

Declension

Inflection of piccolo (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation)
nominative piccolo piccolot
genitive piccolon piccolojen
piccoloiden
piccoloitten
partitive piccoloa piccoloja
piccoloita
illative piccoloon piccoloihin
singular plural
nominative piccolo piccolot
accusative nom. piccolo piccolot
gen. piccolon
genitive piccolon piccolojen
piccoloiden
piccoloitten
partitive piccoloa piccoloja
piccoloita
inessive piccolossa piccoloissa
elative piccolosta piccoloista
illative piccoloon piccoloihin
adessive piccololla piccoloilla
ablative piccololta piccoloilta
allative piccololle piccoloille
essive piccolona piccoloina
translative piccoloksi piccoloiksi
instructive — piccoloin
abessive piccolotta piccoloitta
comitative — piccoloineen

Italian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from:

  • An onomatopoetic root or children's/nursery word *pikk-, *picc-.[1]
  • From Vulgar Latin *pikk (“little”), related to *piccare (“to pierce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”).[2]
  • From picca (“point”).
  • From Vulgar Latin pittitus (“small, worthless”), which is linked to French petit and English piece.[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpikːolo]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: pìc‧co‧lo

Adjective

piccolo m (feminine singular piccola, masculine plural piccoli, feminine plural piccole, comparative più piccolo or minore)

  1. small.
  2. little
  3. young

Synonyms

Antonyms

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/tag/piccolo/
  2. ↑ http://etimo.it/?term=piccolo&find=Cerca
  3. ↑ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume II, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

From Italian piccolo

Noun

piccolo m (plural piccolos)

  1. piccolo
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