ostinato

English

WOTD – 16 November 2011

From Italian ostinato (“stubborn”). Doublet of obstinate.

ostinato (plural ostinatos or ostinati)

(music) A piece of melody, a chord progression, or a bass figure that is repeated over and over as a musical accompaniment.
- 2009, January 26, “Anthony Tommasini”, in Pricking Up the Ears to Listen for Echoes of California‎:
  The piece moves in alluring spans of swirling figures, jagged lines and pointillistic outbursts, often prodded forward by ostinatos in the perky piano.

music: figure that is repeated over and over

Borrowed from Italian ostinato.

ostinato

Inflection of ostinato (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		ostinato	ostinatot
genitive		ostinaton	ostinatojen
partitive		ostinatoa	ostinatoja
illative		ostinatoon	ostinatoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		ostinato	ostinatot
accusative	nom.	ostinato	ostinatot
accusative	gen.	ostinaton	ostinatot
genitive		ostinaton	ostinatojen
partitive		ostinatoa	ostinatoja
inessive		ostinatossa	ostinatoissa
elative		ostinatosta	ostinatoista
illative		ostinatoon	ostinatoihin
adessive		ostinatolla	ostinatoilla
ablative		ostinatolta	ostinatoilta
allative		ostinatolle	ostinatoille
essive		ostinatona	ostinatoina
translative		ostinatoksi	ostinatoiksi
instructive		—	ostinatoin
abessive		ostinatotta	ostinatoitta
comitative		—	ostinatoineen

ostinato (feminine singular ostinata, masculine plural ostinati, feminine plural ostinate)

ostinato m (plural ostinati, feminine ostinata)

ostinato m (feminine singular ostinata, masculine plural ostinati, feminine plural ostinate)

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