Etymology

mezzo piano

Today it means: moderately soft Full definition →

Italian mezzo
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The story

  1. Italian · derived frommezzo“middle”
  2. English todaymezzo piano

Italian mezzo (“middle”) + piano (“soft, quiet”)

Words from the same roots

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