Etymology

allegro non troppo

Today it means: Fast, but not too fast. Full definition →

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

From Italian allegro (“fast”) + non (“not”) + troppo (“too much”).

Words from the same roots

Italianallegro all →

allegroallegro ma non troppo

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.