Translation
piano
Word origin
An international borrowing of Italian piano, a clipping of pianoforte ('soft-loud'), the instrument that could play both quietly and loudly. Italian piano goes back to Latin planus ('flat, even'), the root of English plain and plane.
- Origin
- Italian
- Root
- pianoforte
- English cognates
- piano, plain, plane
Examples
bele.
My sister plays the piano very beautifully.
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An old piano stands in the drawing room.
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He learnt to play the piano as a child.
The player is a o. As with , playing takes the accusative: .
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