portamento

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/pɔːtəˈmɛntəʊ/(UK)

Definition of portamento

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A smooth, gliding transition from one note to another; used especially with stringed instruments, and sometimes on brass.
    “The music was feral, Eastern in scale, flattened seconds and sixths, and a kind of fretless portamento between”

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Etymology

From Italian portamento, from portare (“bear, carry”).

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