arpeggio

Borrowed from Italian arpeggio, from arpeggiare (“to play a harp”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑɹˈpɛ.dʒi.oʊ/

arpeggio (plural arpeggios or arpeggi)

1. (music) The notes of a chord played individually instead of simultaneously, usually moving from lowest to highest.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     He struck the opening chords of the passage; but this time Irene's voice was silent. Victor stopped in the middle of an arpeggio.

• broken chord

• geropiga

From the verb arpeggiare, from arpa.

arpeggio m (plural arpeggi)

1. arpeggio

arpeggio

1. first-person singular present indicative of arpeggiare

• pareggio, pareggiò
• peggiora
• piaggerò
• poggerai
• poggiare

arpeggio m (plural arpeggios)

1. (uncommon) Alternative form of arpejo