staccato

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• /stəˈkɑːtoʊ/
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Borrowed from Italian staccato (“detached, disconnected”), past participle of staccare (“to detach, separate”), aphetic variant of distaccare (“to separate, detach”), from Middle French destacher (“to detach”), from Old French destachier (“to detach”), from des- + atachier (“to attach”), alteration of estachier (“to fasten with or to a stake, lay claim to”), from estache (“a stake”), from Low Frankish *stakkā (“stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz, *stakô (“stick, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“stick, stake”). Akin to Old High German stecko (“post”) (German Stecken (“stick”)), Old Saxon stekko (“stake”), Old Norse stakkr (“hay stack, heap”), Old English staca (“stake”). More at stake.

12 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 斷奏 /断奏 (duànzòu) — a style of playing short sharp notes
• Finnish: terävästi — a style of playing short sharp notes
• Finnish: staccato — a style of playing short sharp notes
• Finnish: terävä soitto — a style of playing short sharp notes
• Greek: στακάτο (stakáto) — a style of playing short sharp notes
• Italian: staccato — a style of playing short sharp notes
• Japanese: スタッカート (sutakkāto) — a style of playing short sharp notes
• Korean: 스타카토 (seutakato) — a style of playing short sharp notes
• Māori: patō — a style of playing short sharp notes
• Polish: staccato — a style of playing short sharp notes
• Russian: стакка́то (stakkáto) — a style of playing short sharp notes
• Spanish: staccato — a style of playing short sharp notes