vibrato

vibrato

See also: Vibrato

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian vibrato m, past participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈbɹɑːtoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ

Noun

vibrato (plural vibratos)

1. (music) The musical effect or technique where the pitch or frequency of a note or sound is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered over a small distance for the duration of that note or sound.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 429:

     He felt his teeth methodically, one after the other, with a vibrato movement of finger and thumb.

Related terms

• vibrant
• vibrate
• vibratile
• vibration
• vibratiuncle
• vibrative
• vibrator

Translations

Musical effect or technique

Catalan: vibrato m Dutch: vibrato (nl) n Esperanto: vibrado Estonian: vibraato Finnish: vibrato (fi) French: vibrato (fr) German: Bebung f Hungarian: vibrato m Italian: vibrato (it) m Japanese: ビブラート (biburāto) Korean: 비브라토 (bibeurato) Occitan: vibrato m Polish: vibrato (pl) m Portuguese: vibrato m Russian: вибра́то (ru) n (vibráto) Spanish: vibrato (es) m Venetian: vibrà

See also

• tremolo

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Finnish

Etymology

From Italian vibrato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋibrɑ(ː)t(ː)o/, [ˈʋibrɑ(ː)t̪(ː)o̞]
• Rhymes: -ibrɑto
• Syllabification^(key): vib‧ra‧to

Noun

vibrato

1. (music) vibrato

Declension

Inflection of vibrato (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		vibrato	vibratot
genitive		vibraton	vibratojen
partitive		vibratoa	vibratoja
illative		vibratoon	vibratoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		vibrato	vibratot
accusative	nom.	vibrato	vibratot
	gen.	vibraton
genitive		vibraton	vibratojen
partitive		vibratoa	vibratoja
inessive		vibratossa	vibratoissa
elative		vibratosta	vibratoista
illative		vibratoon	vibratoihin
adessive		vibratolla	vibratoilla
ablative		vibratolta	vibratoilta
allative		vibratolle	vibratoille
essive		vibratona	vibratoina
translative		vibratoksi	vibratoiksi
instructive		—	vibratoin
abessive		vibratotta	vibratoitta
comitative		—	vibratoineen

Possessive forms of vibrato (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	vibratoni	vibratomme
2nd person	vibratosi	vibratonne
3rd person	vibratonsa

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian vibrato m, past participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”), cognate with vibré m.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.bʁa.to/

Noun

vibrato m (plural vibratos)

1. (music) vibrato

Further reading

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viˈbra.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: vi‧brà‧to

Participle

vibrato (feminine vibrata, masculine plural vibrati, feminine plural vibrate)

1. past participle of vibrare

Noun

vibrato m (plural vibrati)

1. (music) vibrato

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯iˈbraː.toː/, [u̯ɪˈbräːt̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈbra.to/, [viˈbräːt̪o]

Verb

vibrātō

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of vibrō

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Portuguese

Noun

vibrato m (plural vibratos)

1. (music) vibrato (musical effect where the pitch of a note is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered)

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian vibrato.

Adverb

vibrato

1. vibrato

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈbɾato/ [biˈβ̞ɾa.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: vi‧bra‧to

Noun

vibrato m (plural vibratos)

1. vibrato

Further reading

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