Etymology

contrabasso

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Today it means: The largest kind of bass viol. Full definition →

Italian contrabbasso
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  1. Italian · borrowed fromcontrabbasso
  2. English todaycontrabasso

Borrowed from Italian contrabbasso.

Words from the same roots

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