glissando

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian glissando.

Noun

glissando (countable and uncountable, plural glissandi or glissandos or glissandoes)

1. (music) Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
2. A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.

Derived terms

• glissando babbler

Translations

musical term

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刮奏 (guāzòu), 滑音 (zh) (huáyīn)

• Esperanto: glisando
• Finnish: glissando (fi)
• French: glissando (fr) m
• Hungarian: glissando
• Italian: glissando (it) m
• Polish: biegnik, glissando (pl) n
• Spanish: glisando m

Verb

glissando (third-person singular simple present glissandos, present participle glissandoing, simple past and past participle glissandoed)

1. (music) To play with a glissando or sliding effect.

Further reading

• glissando on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Noun

glissando m (plural glissandos)

1. (music) glissando

Further reading

• “glissando”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian glissando.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡlisːɒndoː] (phonetic respelling: glisszandó)
• Hyphenation: glis‧san‧do
• Rhymes: -doː

Noun

glissando

1. (music) glissando (a continuous sliding from one pitch to another)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	glissando	glissandók
accusative	glissandót	glissandókat
dative	glissandónak	glissandóknak
instrumental	glissandóval	glissandókkal
causal-final	glissandóért	glissandókért
translative	glissandóvá	glissandókká
terminative	glissandóig	glissandókig
essive-formal	glissandoként	glissandókként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	glissandóban	glissandókban
superessive	glissandón	glissandókon
adessive	glissandónál	glissandóknál
illative	glissandóba	glissandókba
sublative	glissandóra	glissandókra
allative	glissandóhoz	glissandókhoz
elative	glissandóból	glissandókból
delative	glissandóról	glissandókról
ablative	glissandótól	glissandóktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	glissandóé	glissandóké
non-attributive possessive - plural	glissandóéi	glissandókéi

Possessive forms of glissando
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	glissandóm	glissandóim
2nd person sing.	glissandód	glissandóid
3rd person sing.	glissandója	glissandói
1st person plural	glissandónk	glissandóink
2nd person plural	glissandótok	glissandóitok
3rd person plural	glissandójuk	glissandóik

Italian

Verb

glissando

1. gerund of glissare

Adverb

glissando

1. in the style of a glissando

Noun

glissando m (invariable)

1. glissando