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ritenuto

ritenuto adjective: (of a passage in a musical score) immediately slower, held back at a slower rate of pace.

Adjective

ritenuto (not comparable)

  1. (of a passage in a musical score) immediately slower, held back at a slower rate of pace.

Noun

ritenuto (plural ritenutos)

  1. A musical passage of this kind.

ritenuto meaning in Bengali

ritenuto in Bengali

তাৎক্ষণিকভাবে ধীর, মন্থর গতিতে ধরে রাখা

Forms of ritenuto

pluralritenutos

Origin of ritenuto

From Italian ritenuto. Doublet of retinue.

Questions about ritenuto

What does ritenuto mean?
Ritenuto means (of a passage in a musical score) immediately slower, held back at a slower rate of pace.
What is ritenuto in Bengali?
Ritenuto in Bengali is তাৎক্ষণিকভাবে ধীর, মন্থর গতিতে ধরে রাখা. See Ritenuto meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is ritenuto?
Ritenuto can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ritenuto in the dictionary

  1. ritelessness
  2. ritely
  3. riten.
  4. Ritenour
  5. Ritenours
  6. ritenuto
  7. ritenutos
  8. Riter
  9. Riters
  10. rites
  11. rites de passage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ritenuto (page history and authors); ritenuto (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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