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alfabeto

alfabeto noun: noodles shaped like letters of the alphabet.

Noun

alfabeto (uncountable)

  1. Noodles shaped like letters of the alphabet.
    • Holonym: alphabet soup
    • Small pastas like orzo, acini di pepe, pastina, alfabeto, and ditalini are perfect for adding to soups.2016, The New Slow Cooker Cookbook, Adams Media
  2. (historical) An early Italian alphabetic notation system used to describe chords.
    • The monograph should deal not only with modal scales (their range, ambitus, "centonized" gestures, cadences, and structural application in music) but would similarly need to deal with the guitar's alfabeto, the labyrinth of guitar chords, movable chords, transposed chords, the progressions of B...1987, Journal of the Lute Society of America, volumes 17-18, page 127
    • Composers for harpsichord, lute, viol, and guitar often placed chords or ornaments on notes in the positions of those strummed downward in the alfabeto tablatures, and composers for all instruments gave longer values to many of them.1987, Betty Bang Mather, Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque: A Handbook for Performance, page 30

Origin of alfabeto

Borrowed from Italian alfabeto (“alphabet”). Doublet of alphabet.

Questions about alfabeto

What does alfabeto mean?
Alfabeto means noodles shaped like letters of the alphabet.
What part of speech is alfabeto?
Alfabeto is a noun.

Words near alfabeto in the dictionary

  1. Alezzandrini syndrome
  2. Aleșd
  3. alf
  4. alfa
  5. alfa grass
  6. alfabeto
  7. alfabetto
  8. alfacalcidol
  9. alfadolone
  10. alfaia
  11. alfaias

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