Etymology

adagio

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Today it means: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully. Full definition →

Italian adagio ← Old Occitan aize ← Vulgar Latin *adiace(m)
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The story

  1. Italianad
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  3. Proto-Italic*ad
  4. Proto-Italic*ad-
  5. Latinad-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(H)yeh₁-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁ként
  8. Latiniaciō
  9. Latiniaceō
  10. Latinadiaceō
  11. Latinadiacēns
  12. Vulgar Latin*adiace(m)
  13. Old Occitanaize
  14. Italianagio
  15. Italianadagio
  16. English todayadagio

Borrowed from Italian adagio.

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