bassetto

English

Etymology

Italian bassetto

Noun

bassetto (plural bassettos)

  1. (music) A tenor viol or small bass viol.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bassetto in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Italian

Etymology

basso +‎ -etto

Noun

bassetto m (plural bassetti)

  1. (informal) shrimp (small person)
  2. (music) basset horn (properly corno di bassetto)

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