sotto

1. abbreviationellipsisnot comparableEllipsis of sotto voce.

   Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto.

   1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104

   1 more example

   Wolowitz: Énchanté, mademoiselle. Howard Wolowitz, Cal Tech department of applied physics. You may be familiar with some of my work – – it’s currently toodling around the surface of Mars. Penny: Hi. Penny. Wolowitz: You smell wonderful. What is that scent you’re wearing? Penny: It’s called b.o. Wolowitz: Ah. Hence the shower, of course. Leonard, where have you been hiding this one? She’s charming. Sheldon: (SOTTO, TO LEONARD) Oh, he’s good.

   2006 October 2nd, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “Pilot”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27)

1. abbreviationellipsisnot comparableEllipsis of sotto voce.

   The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto, intimate.

   2008, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child, page 192

   2 more examples

   Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.

   1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 237

   ‘Assuming these board scores are accurate reflectors of true capacity in this case,’ Academic Affairs says, his high voice serious and sotto,[…]

   1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 7

plural Sottos

1. A surname.