sotto

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See also: sótto and sotto-

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ellipsis of sotto voce.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

sotto (not comparable)

  1. Ellipsis of sotto voce.
    • 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104:
      Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto.
    • 2006 October 2nd, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “Pilot”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27):
      Wolowitz:   Énchanté, mademoiselle. Howard Wolowitz, Cal Tech department of applied physics. You may be familiar with some of my work – – it’s currently toodling around the surface of Mars.
      Penny:   Hi. Penny.
      Wolowitz:   You smell wonderful. What is that scent you’re wearing?
      Penny:   It’s called b.o.
      Wolowitz:   Ah. Hence the shower, of course. Leonard, where have you been hiding this one? She’s charming.
      Sheldon:   (SOTTO, TO LEONARD)   Oh, he’s good.

Translations[edit]

music, informal: sotto voce (adverb) — see sotto voce

Adjective[edit]

sotto (not comparable)

  1. Ellipsis of sotto voce.
    • 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 237:
      Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 7:
      ‘Assuming these board scores are accurate reflectors of true capacity in this case,’ Academic Affairs says, his high voice serious and sotto, […]
    • 2008, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child, page 192:
      The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto, intimate.

Translations[edit]

music, informal: sotto voce (adjective) — see sotto voce

Anagrams[edit]

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub.[1] Ultimately from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo. Cognate to French sous.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈsot.to/
  • Rhymes: -otto
  • Hyphenation: sót‧to
  • Audio(file)

Preposition[edit]

sotto

  1. under, beneath, underneath
  2. below, south of

Adverb[edit]

sotto

  1. down
  2. underneath
  3. below

Antonyms[edit]

Noun[edit]

sotto (invariable)

  1. bottom

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

Anagrams[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

sotto

  1. Rōmaji transcription of そっと

Neapolitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin subtus, from sub. Cognate to Italian sotto and French sous.

Preposition[edit]

sotto

  1. below

Ye'kwana[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Cariban *wɨtoto (“person”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

sotto (possessed sottoi)

  1. person, human
  2. Ye'kwana speaker, Ye'kwana, Maquiritari

Numeral[edit]

sotto

  1. (as a component in other numerals) twenty

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sotto”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon, page 113
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ssoto”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ssoto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “so’to”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
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