sotto

See also: sótto and sotto-

English

Etymology

Ellipsis of sotto voce.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊtəʊ/, /ˈsɒtəʊ/, [ˈsotːo]
Rhymes: (UK) -əʊtəʊ, (UK) -ɒtəʊ

Adverb

sotto (not comparable)

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

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

Adjective

sotto (not comparable)

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

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

Anagrams

Totos, ottos, toots

Italian

Etymology

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

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

Preposition

sotto

under, beneath, underneath
below, south of

Adverb

sotto

Antonyms

sopra

Noun

sotto (invariable)

bottom

Derived terms

References

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

Anagrams

Tosto, tosto, tostò

Japanese

Romanization

sotto

Rōmaji transcription of そっと

Neapolitan

Etymology

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

Preposition

sotto

below

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV	sotto
Brazilian standard	sotto
New Tribes	sotto

Alternative forms

so'to
ssoto (Cunucunuma River dialect)
soto (Brazil)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [sotto]

Noun

sotto (possessed sottoi)

person, human
Ye'kwana speaker, Ye'kwana, Maquiritari
Synonym: ye'kwana

Numeral

sotto

(as a component in other numerals) twenty

Derived terms

References

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

[1] Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

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