concerto

Borrowed from Italian concerto, deverbal from concertare. Doublet of concert.

• (US) IPA^(key): /kənˈt͡ʃɛɹtoʊ/

• Audio (US):

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concerto (plural concertos or concerti)

1. (music) A piece of music for one or more solo instruments and orchestra.
   • 2009 January 20, Allan Kozinn, “Shafts of Sun in Winter From the Italian Baroque”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.

• concerto grosso

concerto

1. first-person singular present indicative of concertar

Borrowed from Italian concerto, deverbal from concertare.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɛʁ.to/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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concerto m (plural concertos)

1. concerto

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

• IPA^(key): /konˈt͡ʃɛr.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛrto
• Hyphenation: con‧cèr‧to

Deverbal from concertare +‎ -o.

concerto m (plural concerti)

1. (music) concert, recital
2. (music) concerto
3. agreement, concert

   Synonym: accordo

• concertino
• concertista

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

concerto

1. first-person singular present indicative of concertare

• concreto, concretò, contorce

From con- + certō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔŋˈkɛr.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛr.to]

concertō (present infinitive concertāre, perfect active concertāvī, supine concertātum); first conjugation

1. to fight or contend
2. to dispute or debate

• concertātōrius

• “concerto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “concerto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “concerto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hold an altercation with a man: verbis concertare or altercari cum aliquo (B. C. 3. 19. 6)
    
• concerto in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Borrowed from Italian concerto (“concert”).

• Homophone: conserto
• Hyphenation: con‧cer‧to

concerto m (plural concertos)

1. concert (a musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part)

• concertina, concertista
• concertar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Homophone: conserto
• Hyphenation: con‧cer‧to

concerto

1. first-person singular present indicative of concertar

• “concerto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “concerto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026