appoggiatura

Borrowed from Italian appoggiatura, derived from appoggiare (“to lean”).

• IPA^(key): /ə.ˌpɒ.d͡ʒə.ˈtʊɹ.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

appoggiatura (plural appoggiaturas or appoggiature)

1. (music) A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows.
   • 1992, New York Times, March 2

     The following Adagietto was like a long, melting appoggiatura composed of smaller dying falls and languid resolutions.

From appoggiare +‎ -tura.

appoggiatura f (plural appoggiature)

1. appoggiatura
2. (theater) a strong emphasis in intonation on the key word of a joke

appoggiatura f (plural appoggiaturas or appoggiature)

1. Alternative form of apogiatura