Etymology

allegro ma non troppo

Today it means: A tempo mark lively but not too much Full definition →

Italian allegro
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The story

  1. Italian · borrowed fromallegro“fast”
  2. English todayallegro ma non troppo

From the Italian allegro (“fast”) ma (“but”) non (“not”) troppo (“too much”).

Words from the same roots

Italianallegro all →

allegroallegro non troppo

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.