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SOLFEGGIO

Definition: SOLFEGGIO

SOLFEGGIO

Noun

1. The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SOLFEGGIO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)


Crosswords: SOLFEGGIO

English words defined with "SOLFEGGIO": Za. (references)
Non-English Usage: "SOLFEGGIO" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (sol-fa, solfeggio, tonic sol fa).

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Modern Usage: SOLFEGGIO

DomainUsage

Song Titles

Song of the Nairobi Trio (Solfeggio) (performing artist: His Harp and Orchestra Robert Maxwell)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SOLFEGGIO

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

solfeggio

17

bach solfeggio

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SOLFEGGIO

Language Translations for "SOLFEGGIO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

solfeggio (sol-fa, tonic sol fa). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olfeggiosay

   

Russian 

  

сольфеджио (sol-fa). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SOLFEGGIO

Derivations

Words beginning with "SOLFEGGIO": solfeggios. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SOLFEGGIO"

Words rhyming with "SOLFEGGIO" (pronounced 'Sol*feg"gio'): Arpeggio. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SOLFEGGIO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-g-g-i-l-o-o-s"

-1 letter: googlies, solfeggi.

-2 letters: floosie, foliose, gigolos, ologies.

-3 letters: filose, flooie, fogies, folios, gigolo, igloos, isolog, loggie, looies.

-4 letters: files, filos, flies, floes, flogs, fogie, foils, folio, fools, gogos, golfs, goofs, goose, igloo, loges, logoi, logos, loofs, looie, loose, ogles, oleos, olios, solei.

-5 letters: eggs, egis, egos, figs, file, filo, fils, floe, flog, foes, fogs, foil.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-g-g-i-l-o-o-s"
 

+1 letter: solfeggios.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SOLFEGGIO


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4F 4C 46 45 47 47 49 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ---    .-..    ..-.    .    --.    --.    ..    ---

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001111 01001100 01000110 01000101 01000111 01000111 01001001 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#76 &#70 &#69 &#71 &#71 &#73 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 004C 0046 0045 0047 0047 0049 004F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

534946403941414349

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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