See capriccio on Wiktionary
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"text": "Will this Capricio hold in thee, art ſure?",
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{
"ref": "1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 10:",
"text": "If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am reſolv’d to purſue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Buſineſs.",
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{
"ref": "1827, [Benjamin Disraeli], chapter IX, in Vivian Grey, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book V, page 174:",
"text": "“Poor fellow!” thought Vivian, “I fear, with all thy wit and pleasantry, thou art, after all, but one of those capriccios which Nature sometimes indulges in, merely to show how superior is her accustomed order to eccentricities, even accompanied with rare powers.”",
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"text": "Capricci, far from being decorative images without meaning, probably express the sensation that the world, even though built by man with pretensions of eternity, is instead subjugated to the dominance of time […]",
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"ref": "1822, [Thomas Love Peacock], Maid Marian, London: […] T[homas] Hookham […], pages 66–67:",
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{
"ref": "1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Renaissance at Charleroi”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "The stillness returned, save for the little voices of the night—the owl's recitative, the capriccio of the crickets, the concerto of the frogs in the grass.",
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],
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"lifestyle",
"music"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "type of painting",
"word": "capriccio-maalaus"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "type of painting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capriccio"
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"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "piece of music",
"word": "capriccio"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "suíxiǎngqǔ",
"sense": "piece of music",
"word": "隨想曲 /随想曲"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "piece of music",
"word": "kapriisi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "piece of music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capriccio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "piece of music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capriccio"
},
{
"alt": "きそうきょく,kisōkyoku",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "piece of music",
"word": "奇想曲"
},
{
"alt": "きそうきょく,kisōkyoku",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "piece of music",
"word": "綺想曲"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "piece of music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capriccio"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "piece of music",
"word": "kapriçyo"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Alessandro Salucci"
],
"word": "capriccio"
}
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"Italian nouns",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Italian terms with audio pronunciation",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Italian/ittʃo",
"Rhymes:Italian/ittʃo/3 syllables"
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"1": "en",
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"bor": "1"
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],
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"args": {
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"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ French: caprice\n→ Danish: kaprice\n→ English: caprice\n→ German: Caprice\n→ Hebrew: קפריזה (kapriza)\n→ Romanian: capriciu\n→ Russian: каприз (kapriz)\n→ Turkish: kapris",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ French: caprice\n→ Danish: kaprice\n→ English: caprice\n→ German: Caprice\n→ Hebrew: קפריזה (kapriza)\n→ Romanian: capriciu\n→ Russian: каприз (kapriz)\n→ Turkish: kapris"
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"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "capricho",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Spanish: capricho\n→ Catalan: capritx\n→ Cebuano: kapritso\n→ Tagalog: kapritso",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
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}
],
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],
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"tags": [
"plural"
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"painting",
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},
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"plural"
]
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"inanimate"
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}
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],
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}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.