allegro

Borrowed from Italian allegro.

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈlɛɡɹoʊ/, IPA^(key): /əˈleɪɡɹoʊ/

allegro (plural allegros)

1. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto
2. (music) In more traditional use, an expressive marking indicating lively or happily, not necessarily quick or fast.
3. (music) A passage having this mark

allegro (not comparable)

1. (music) played in a quick, lively tempo

allegro (not comparable)

1. (music) in a quick and lively manner

• allégro

Borrowed from Italian allegro, itself borrowed from French allègre.

• IPA^(key): /a.le.ɡʁo/

allegro m (plural allegros)

1. allegro

allegro

1. allegro

• “allegro” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from French allègre, from Latin alacer (“lively; happy, cheerful”). Compare the inherited doublet alacre.

allegro (feminine singular allegra, masculine plural allegri, feminine plural allegre)

1. cheerful
2. mirthful

• allegretto
• allegrezza
• allegria
• allegramente

• Greek: αλέγρος (alégros)

• legarlo

• alegro

Borrowed from Italian allegro. Doublet of alegre.

allegro (plural allegro, comparable)

1. (music) allegro (played in a quick, lively tempo)

allegro (not comparable)

1. (music) allegro (in a quick, lively tempo)

allegro m (plural allegros)

1. (music) allegro (a passage to be played in a quick, lively tempo)