portamento

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portamento

/pɔːtəˈmɛntəʊ/ UK

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From Italian portamento, from portare (“bear, carry”).

noun portamentos · portamenti

A smooth, gliding transition from one note to another; used especially with stringed instruments, and sometimes on brass. The music was feral, Eastern in scale, flattened seconds and sixths, and a kind of fretless portamento between

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noun sliding tone used in music

中文	滑音 huáyīn
Français	port de voix
Ελληνικά	πορταμέντο portaménto

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@misc{portamento_2026,
  title = {portamento},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/portamento},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}