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7-letter words (1 found)

PICCOLO,

5-letter words (3 found)

CLOOP,COLIC,POLIO,

4-letter words (14 found)

CLIP,CLOP,COCO,COIL,COOL,COOP,LIPO,LOCI,LOCO,LOOP,OLIO,POCO,POLO,POOL,

3-letter words (12 found)

COL,COO,COP,LIP,LOO,LOP,OIL,OOP,PIC,POI,POL,POO,

2-letter words (8 found)

IO,LI,LO,OI,OO,OP,PI,PO,

You can make 38 words from piccolo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of piccolo

piccolo

Etymology

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

piccolo (plural piccolos or piccoli)

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

Adjective

piccolo

  1. Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments.

References

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

Danish

Etymology

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

Noun

piccolo c (singular definite piccoloen, plural indefinite piccoloer)

  1. bellboy, bellhop
  2. office boy

Inflection

Antonyms

  • (female) piccoline

Related terms

  • piccolofløjte

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian piccolo (“small”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi.koː.loː/
  • 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)

Finnish

Etymology

From Italian piccolo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpikːolo/, [ˈpikːo̞lo̞]

Noun

piccolo

  1. Alternative spelling of pikkolo.

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “piccolo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Alternative forms

  • picolo (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From Italian piccolo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi.kɔ.lo/

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.

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Piccolo, from Italian piccolo.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

piccolo (plural piccolok)

  1. (music) piccolo
    Synonyms: pikoló, kisfuvola, ottavino

Declension

References

Italian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from:

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpik.ko.lo/
  • 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
  • piccolotto
  • piccoletto

See also

  • micro-
  • nano-

References

Further reading

  • John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “piccolo”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Polish

Alternative forms

  • pikolo

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian piccolo.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

piccolo n

  1. piccolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute)
    Synonyms: flet piccolo, pikulina

Declension

Noun

piccolo m pers

  1. (dated) potboy (boy or man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses)
    Synonym: pikolak
    Hypernym: służący

Declension

Further reading

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

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

Source: wiktionary.org