piano

Short form of pianoforte, from Italian pianoforte, from piano (“soft”) + forte (“strong”). So named because it could produce a wide range of varied volumes note-by-note, in contrast to older keyboard instruments, notably the harpsichord and the clavichord.

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /piˈænoʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /piˈænəʊ/

piano (plural pianos or piani)

An upright piano

A grand piano

1. (music) A keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings. [from 1803]

   Synonym: pianoforte (dated)

   The piano in his house takes up a lot of space.

   She has been taking lessons for many years and now plays piano very well.

   He can play "Happy Birthday" on the piano.

   Most of the works by Frédéric Chopin are for the piano.

• (keyboard instrument): cembalo, clavichord, fortepiano, harpsichord, organ, synthesizer, synth

piano (comparative more piano, superlative most piano)

1. (music) Soft, quiet.
2. In extended use; quiet, subdued.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, page 160:

     ‘Tradecraft, Chris,’ Enderby put in, who liked his bit of jargon, and Martindale, still piano, shot him a glance of admiration.

From Italian piano.

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /piˈɑnoʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /piˈɑːnəʊ/

Piano notation.

piano (not comparable)

1. (music) Softly, as a musical direction (abbreviated to p. in sheet music). [from 17th c.]

• mezzo piano
• mp
• pianissimo
• pp

• piano on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• NAIOP

• IPA^(key): /piˈanɔ/

piano f (indefinite plural piano, definite singular pianoja, definite plural pianot)

1. piano

Ultimately from Italian piano.

piano (definite accusative pianonu, plural pianolar)

1. piano

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /piˈa.no/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /piˈa.nu/

piano m (plural pianos)

1. (music) piano

• IPA^(key): /piˈaːnoː/

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piano c (plural piano's, diminutive pianootje n)

1. piano

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• IPA^(key): /piˈano/
• Hyphenation: pi‧a‧no
• Rhymes: -ano

piano (accusative singular pianon, plural pianoj, accusative plural pianojn)

1. piano

• pianisto
• pianistino

From Italian piano.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɑno/, [ˈpiɑno̞]

piano

1. piano

• pianisti

• apoin, paino, paoin, pinoa, ponia

From Italian piano. Doublet of plain and plan.

• IPA^(key): /pja.no/

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piano m (plural pianos)

1. (music) piano
   • 1986, “Il était une fois … une maison des musiciens [There Once Was… a House of Musicians]”, in Il était une fois … une petite grenouille [There Once Was… a Little Frog] (fiction), Paris: CLE International:

     Je n’aime pas le piano. Je préfère le football.
     Hein ! Quoi ! Et tu me dis ça à moi, le grand professeur Trompette ? Tiens ! Répète ta leçon cinq fois ! Non, dix fois !
     Je déteste le piano !

     I don’t like the piano. I like football more.
     Huh? What? And you’re telling that to me, the great professor Trumpet? Alright then! Repeat what you’ve learned five times! No, ten times!
     I hate the piano!

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

From Latin plānus, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-.

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piano (feminine singular piana, masculine plural piani, feminine plural piane)

1. plane
2. flat, level

   Synonym: piatto

3. plain
4. soft

   Antonym: forte

5. penultimate accented

• levigato
• liscio

piano m (plural piani)

1. plane
2. floor, storey (British), story (US) (of a building)
3. plan, tactic, stratagem, scheme, plot
4. (music) piano (musical instrument)

• progetto
• proposito

piano (superlative pianissimo)

1. slowly
2. carefully
3. (music) piano

• piana
• pianificazione
• pianista
• pianola
• piano piano / pian piano

• piano¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• piano² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• piano³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• opina

piano

1. Rōmaji transcription of ピアノ

Borrowed from English piano and French piano.

piano m (plural pianos)

1. (Jersey, music) piano

• pianiste (“pianist”)

piano n (definite singular pianoet, indefinite plural piano or pianoer, definite plural pianoa or pianoene)

1. a piano

• flygel
• klaver

piano n (definite singular pianoet, indefinite plural piano, definite plural pianoa)

1. a piano

• flygel
• klaver

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲa.nɔ/

piano f

1. vocative singular of piana

From Italian piano, short form of pianoforte.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpjɐnu/
• Hyphenation: pi‧a‧no

piano

1. piano

piano (comparative mais piano superlative o mais piano)

1. (music) piano, soft
2. (music) piano, slowly

piano m (plural pianos)

1. piano

• pianista

• → Hunsrik: Piano

• IPA^(key): /ˈpianɔ/

piano

1. musical directive to play softly

piano m (genitive singular piana, nominative plural pianá, genitive plural pián, declension pattern of mesto)

1. (music) piano
2. a very soft sound

• (piano): klavír

• piano in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Clipping of pianoforte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjano/

piano m (plural pianos)

1. piano

• pianista

• “piano” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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piano n

1. a piano

• ta det piano
• flygel

piano

1. piano

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “пианино”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika