"soprano" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /səˈpɹænoʊ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-soprano.ogg Forms: soprano a soprano voice singing Vivaldi's Motet for Soprano and Orchestra [canonical], sopranos [plural], soprani [plural], sopranoes [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, adjective from preposition Latin super (“above”). Doublet of sovereign, from the same Latin root via Old French. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|soprano}} Italian soprano, {{der|en|VL.|*superānus}} Vulgar Latin *superānus, {{der|en|la|super|t=above}} Latin super (“above”), {{doublet|en|sovereign}} Doublet of sovereign Head templates: {{en-noun|s|soprani|sopranoes}} soprano (plural sopranos or soprani or sopranoes)
  1. The musical part higher in pitch than alto, typically encompassing the range of the treble clef. Categories (topical): Musical voices and registers Translations (pitch): 女高音 (nǚgāoyīn) (Chinese Mandarin), soprán [masculine] (Czech), sopraano (Finnish), soprano [masculine] (French), soprano [masculine] (Galician), სოპრანო (soṗrano) (Georgian), Sopran [masculine] (German), kopolano (Hawaiian), szoprán (Hungarian), sopran (Indonesian), ソプラノ (sopurano) (Japanese), soprano (Malay), reo kōtike (Maori), reo tōiri (Maori), leo kula (Niuean), sopran [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sopran [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), soprano [masculine] (Portuguese), soprană [feminine] (Romanian), сопра́но (sopráno) [indeclinable, neuter] (Russian), soprano [masculine] (Spanish), sopran [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-soprano-en-noun-F9uBqKJb Disambiguation of Musical voices and registers: 54 40 5 Disambiguation of 'pitch': 100 0
  2. A person or instrument that performs the soprano part. Categories (topical): Musicians, People Synonyms: sop Coordinate_terms (voice types): mezzo-soprano, contralto [feminine], countertenor, tenor, baritone, bass [masculine] Translations (person or instrument): soprano [feminine] (Catalan), sopraano (Finnish), soprano [feminine, masculine] (Galician), სოპრანო (soṗrano) (Georgian), kopolano (Hawaiian), szoprán (Hungarian), sopran [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sopran [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), soprano [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), soprană [feminine] (Romanian), сопра́но (sopráno) [indeclinable, neuter] (Russian), soprano [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), sopran [common-gender] (Swedish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: lyric soprano, mezzo-soprano, sing soprano, sopranino, sopranist, soprano recorder, soprano sax, soprano saxophone, soprano saxophonist, spinto soprano Coordinate_terms: SATB [music, entertainment, lifestyle]

Verb

IPA: /səˈpɹænoʊ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-soprano.ogg Forms: sopranos [present, singular, third-person], sopranoing [participle, present], sopranoed [participle, past], sopranoed [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, adjective from preposition Latin super (“above”). Doublet of sovereign, from the same Latin root via Old French. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|soprano}} Italian soprano, {{der|en|VL.|*superānus}} Vulgar Latin *superānus, {{der|en|la|super|t=above}} Latin super (“above”), {{doublet|en|sovereign}} Doublet of sovereign Head templates: {{en-verb}} soprano (third-person singular simple present sopranos, present participle sopranoing, simple past and past participle sopranoed)
  1. To sing or utter with high pitch.
    Sense id: en-soprano-en-verb-9kFemTRu

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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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.