solfeggio

See also: solfeggiò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solfeggio. Doublet of solfège.

Noun

solfeggio (countable and uncountable, plural solfeggios or solfeggi)

1. (music) Synonym of solfège.

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian solfeggio.

Noun

solfeggio

1. (music) solfeggio, solfège: a method of sight singing that uses the syllables do (originally ut), re, mi, fa, sol (or so), la, and si (or ti) to represent the seven principal pitches of the scale, most commonly the major scale. The fixed-do system uses do for C, and the moveable-do system uses do for whatever key the melody uses (thus B is do if the piece is in the key of B). The relative natural minor of a scale may be represented by beginning at la

Further reading

• “solfeggio”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Etymology 1

From solfeggiare.

Noun

solfeggio m (plural solfeggi)

1. solfeggio

Descendants

• → English: solfeggio
• → Estonian: solfedžo
• → French: solfège
  • → Bulgarian: солфеж (solfež)
  • → English: solfège
  • → Finnish: solfeesi
  • → Galician: solfexo
  • → Japanese: ソルフェージュ (sorufēju)
  • → Korean: 솔페주 (solpeju)
  • → Latvian: solfēža
  • → Lithuanian: solfežas
  • → Persian:

    Iranian Persian: سلفژ (solfež)

  • → Polish: solfeż
  • → Portuguese: solfejo
  • → Turkish: solfej
• → Romanian: solfegiu
• → Russian: сольфеджио (solʹfedžio)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

solfeggio

1. first-person singular present indicative of solfeggiare

See also

• do
• re
• mi
• fa
• sol
• la
• si

Further reading

• solfeggio on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it