piccolo

piccolo

See also: Piccolo

English

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Etymology

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪkələʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪkoloʊ/, /ˈpɪkəloʊ/, /ˈpɪkl̩oʊ/

Noun

piccolo (plural piccolos or piccoli)

1. (music, obsolete) A piccolo piano.
2. 

   A piccolo flute
   A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.

   Synonym: octave flute

3. (music, rare) An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
4. A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.

   Synonyms: busser, commis waiter, (slang, possibly obsolete) omnibus

   • 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Soul of Laploshka”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], OCLC 1263167, page 71:

     [A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs.

5. (US, chiefly Southern US and New York) A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
6. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.

   Synonyms: quarter bottle, snipe

Derived terms

• piccoloist

Translations

small, high-pitched transverse flute

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: пиколо (bg) n (pikolo) Catalan: flautí (ca) m, piccolo (ca) m, octaví (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 短笛 (dyun5 dek5) Mandarin: 短笛 (zh) (duǎndí) Czech: pikola (cs) f Danish: piccolofløjte c Dutch: piccolo (nl) m Estonian: pikoloflööt Faroese: pikkolofloyta f Finnish: piccolo (fi), piccolohuilu, pikkolo (fi) French: piccolo (fr) m Galician: pícolo (gl) m German: Piccoloflöte (de) f Greek: πίκολο (el) n (píkolo) Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can Hawaiian: pikolō Hungarian: pikoló (hu), piccolo (hu) Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Igbo: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: pikolo (id) Irish: please add this translation if you can Italian: ottavino (it) Japanese: ピッコロ (ja) (pikkoro) Ladin: please add this translation if you can Ladino: please add this translation if you can Lala-Roba: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Maltese: please add this translation if you can Maori: pōrutu Pākehā Marathi: पिक्कोलो m (pikkolo) Norwegian: Bokmål: pikkolofløyte Nynorsk: pikkolofløyte Polish: pikolo (pl) n, piccolo (pl) n, flet piccolo m Portuguese: flautim (pt) m, piccolo (pt) Romanian: piccolo (ro) n Russian: пи́кколо (ru) n (píkkolo), фле́йта-пи́кколо (ru) n (fléjta-píkkolo) Slovak: pikola Slovene: mala flavta Spanish: flautín (es) m, píccolo m Swahili: filimbi ndogo Swedish: piccolaflöjt (sv) Tagalog: plawtin Veps: please add this translation if you can Volapük: please add this translation if you can Votic: please add this translation if you can Võro: please add this translation if you can

bottle of champagne

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: piccolo (nl) m Estonian: please add this translation if you can Faroese: please add this translation if you can Finnish: pikkolopullo (fi) French: quart (fr) m, piccolo (fr) m German: Piccolo (de) n Greek: please add this translation if you can Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Igbo: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Irish: please add this translation if you can Italian: piccolo (it) Ladin: please add this translation if you can Ladino: please add this translation if you can Latin: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Maltese: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Norwegian Bokmål: please add this translation if you can Norwegian Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can Polish: piccolo (pl) sg or n Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: please add this translation if you can Slovak: please add this translation if you can Slovene: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: piccolaflaska c Veps: please add this translation if you can Volapük: please add this translation if you can Votic: please add this translation if you can Võro: please add this translation if you can

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Spanish: (please verify) flautín (es) m Vietnamese: (please verify) sáo nhỏ

Adjective

piccolo

1. Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments.
   • 1945, Christian Darnton, You and Music‎, 2nd edition, New York: Pelican Books, retrieved 20 February 2022, page 65:

     There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet.

References

• “piccolo, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2020.

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Danish

Etymology

From Italian piccolo (“small, little, young”).

Noun

piccolo c (singular definite piccoloen, plural indefinite piccoloer)

1. bellboy, bellhop
2. office boy

Inflection

Declension of piccolo

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	piccolo	piccoloen	piccoloer	piccoloerne
genitive	piccolos	piccoloens	piccoloers	piccoloernes

Antonyms

• (female) piccoline

Related terms

• piccolofløjte

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian piccolo (“small”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.koː.loː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pic‧co‧lo

Noun

piccolo m (plural piccolo's, diminutive piccolootje n)

1. (music) piccolo (small flute)
2. piccolo, hotel porter
3. piccolo (small bottle of champagne)

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Finnish

Etymology

From Italian piccolo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpikːolo/, [ˈpikːo̞lo̞]

Noun

piccolo

1. Alternative spelling of pikkolo.

Declension

Inflection of piccolo (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation)
nominative		piccolo	piccolot
genitive		piccolon	piccolojen piccoloiden piccoloitten
partitive		piccoloa	piccoloja piccoloita
illative		piccoloon	piccoloihin
		singular	plural
nominative		piccolo	piccolot
accusative	nom.	piccolo	piccolot
	gen.	piccolon
genitive		piccolon	piccolojen piccoloiden piccoloitten
partitive		piccoloa	piccoloja piccoloita
inessive		piccolossa	piccoloissa
elative		piccolosta	piccoloista
illative		piccoloon	piccoloihin
adessive		piccololla	piccoloilla
ablative		piccololta	piccoloilta
allative		piccololle	piccoloille
essive		piccolona	piccoloina
translative		piccoloksi	piccoloiksi
instructive		—	piccoloin
abessive		piccolotta	piccoloitta
comitative		—	piccoloineen

Possessive forms of piccolo (type palvelu)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	piccoloni	piccolomme
2nd person	piccolosi	piccolonne
3rd person	piccolonsa

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French

Alternative forms

• picolo (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From Italian piccolo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.kɔ.lo/

• Audio

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Noun

piccolo m (plural piccolos)

1. (music) piccolo

Further reading

• “piccolo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Hungarian

piccolo

Etymology

From German Piccolo, from Italian piccolo.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpikːolo]
• Hyphenation: pic‧co‧lo
• Rhymes: -loː

Noun

piccolo (plural piccolok)

1. (music) piccolo

   Synonyms: pikoló, kisfuvola, ottavino

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	piccolo	piccolók
accusative	piccolót	piccolókat
dative	piccolónak	piccolóknak
instrumental	piccolóval	piccolókkal
causal-final	piccolóért	piccolókért
translative	piccolóvá	piccolókká
terminative	piccolóig	piccolókig
essive-formal	piccoloként	piccolókként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	piccolóban	piccolókban
superessive	piccolón	piccolókon
adessive	piccolónál	piccolóknál
illative	piccolóba	piccolókba
sublative	piccolóra	piccolókra
allative	piccolóhoz	piccolókhoz
elative	piccolóból	piccolókból
delative	piccolóról	piccolókról
ablative	piccolótól	piccolóktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	piccolóé	piccolóké
non-attributive possessive - plural	piccolóéi	piccolókéi

Possessive forms of piccolo
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	piccolóm	piccolóim
2nd person sing.	piccolód	piccolóid
3rd person sing.	piccolója	piccolói
1st person plural	piccolónk	piccolóink
2nd person plural	piccolótok	piccolóitok
3rd person plural	piccolójuk	piccolóik

References

1. pikoló in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

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Italian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from:

• An onomatopoeic root or children's/nursery word *pikk-, *picc-.[1]
• From Vulgar Latin *pikk (“little”), related to *piccāre (“to pierce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”).[2]
• From picca (“point”).
• From Vulgar Latin pittitus (“small, worthless”), which is linked to French petit and English piece.[3]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpik.ko.lo/[4]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ikkolo
• Hyphenation: pìc‧co‧lo

Adjective

piccolo (feminine piccola, masculine plural piccoli, feminine plural piccole, comparative più piccolo or minore, superlative minimo, diminutive piccolìno or piccolétto or (uncommon) piccolettìno, diminutive-augmentative piccolòtto)

1. small
2. little
3. young

Synonyms

• piccino

Antonyms

• grande
• grosso

Related terms

• piccolezza
• piccolo trumpet
• piccolotto

See also

• micro-
• nano-

References

1. piccolo¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
2. Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “piccolo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
3. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume II, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
4. piccolo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

• “piccolo”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

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Polish

Alternative forms

• pikolo

Etymology

From Italian piccolo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.kɔ.lɔ/, /piˈkɔ.lɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
• Syllabification: pi‧ko‧lo

Noun

piccolo n

1. (music) piccolo

Declension

Declension of piccolo

	singular	plural
nominative	piccolo	piccola
genitive	piccola	piccol
dative	piccolu	piccolom
accusative	piccolo	piccola
instrumental	piccolem	piccolami
locative	piccolu	piccolach
vocative	piccolo	piccola

Further reading

• piccolo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• piccolo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian piccolo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpikolo/ [ˈpi.ko.lo]
• Rhymes: -ikolo

Noun

piccolo m (plural piccolos)

1. piccolo

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

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