improviso

See also: improvisó

English

Etymology

Latin improvisus (“unforeseen”); compare Italian improvviso.

Adjective

improviso (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Not prepared beforehand; unpremeditated; extemporaneous.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for improviso in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Catalan

Verb

improviso

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of improvisar

Galician

Verb

improviso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of improvisar

Latin

Adjective

imprōvīsō

  1. dative masculine singular of imprōvīsus
  2. dative neuter singular of imprōvīsus
  3. ablative masculine singular of imprōvīsus
  4. ablative neuter singular of imprōvīsus

References
  • improviso in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Portuguese

Noun

improviso m (plural improvisos)

  1. improvisation (act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, without prior preparation)
  2. makeshift (a temporary, usually insubstantial, substitution for something else)

Verb

improviso

  1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of improvisar
    Eu improviso uma canção.
    I improvise a song.

Spanish

Verb

improviso

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of improvisar.
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