vibrato

Borrowed from Italian vibrato m, past participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”).

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈbɹɑːtoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ

vibrato (plural vibratos)

1. (music) The musical effect or technique where the pitch or frequency of a note or sound is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered over a small distance for the duration of that note or sound.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 429:

     He felt his teeth methodically, one after the other, with a vibrato movement of finger and thumb.

• tremolo

From Italian vibrato.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋibrɑ(ː)t(ː)o/, [ˈʋibrɑ(ː)t̪(ː)o̞]
• Rhymes: -ibrɑto
• Syllabification^(key): vib‧ra‧to

vibrato

1. (music) vibrato

Borrowed from Italian vibrato m, past participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”), cognate with vibré m.

• IPA^(key): /vi.bʁa.to/

vibrato m (plural vibratos)

1. (music) vibrato

• “vibrato”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /viˈbra.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: vi‧brà‧to

vibrato (feminine vibrata, masculine plural vibrati, feminine plural vibrate)

1. past participle of vibrare

vibrato m (plural vibrati)

1. (music) vibrato

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯iˈbraː.toː/, [u̯ɪˈbräːt̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈbra.to/, [viˈbräːt̪o]

vibrātō

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of vibrō

vibrato m (plural vibratos)

1. (music) vibrato (musical effect where the pitch of a note is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered)

Unadapted borrowing from Italian vibrato.

vibrato

1. vibrato

• IPA^(key): /biˈbɾato/ [biˈβ̞ɾa.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: vi‧bra‧to

vibrato m (plural vibratos)

1. vibrato

• “vibrato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014