piccolo

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪkələʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪkoloʊ/, /ˈpɪkəloʊ/, /ˈpɪkl̩oʊ/

piccolo (plural piccolos or piccoli)

1. (music, obsolete) A piccolo piano.

2. 

   A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.

   Synonym: octave flute

3. (music, rare) An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
4. A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.

   Synonyms: busser, commis waiter, (slang, possibly obsolete) omnibus

   • 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Soul of Laploshka”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 71:

     [A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs.

5. (US, chiefly Southern US and New York) A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
6. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.

   Synonyms: quarter bottle, snipe

• piccoloist

piccolo

1. Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments.
   • 1945, Christian Darnton, You and Music‎^[1], 2nd edition, New York: Pelican Books, retrieved 20 February 2022, page 65:

     There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet.

• “piccolo, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

From Italian piccolo (“small, little, young”).

piccolo c (singular definite piccoloen, plural indefinite piccoloer)

1. bellboy, bellhop
2. office boy

• (female) piccoline

• piccolofløjte

Borrowed from Italian piccolo (“small”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.koː.loː/

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• Hyphenation: pic‧co‧lo

piccolo m (plural piccolo's, diminutive piccolootje n)

1. (music) piccolo (small flute)
2. piccolo, hotel porter
3. piccolo (small bottle of champagne)

From Italian piccolo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpikːolo/, [ˈpikːo̞lo̞]
• Rhymes: -ikːolo

piccolo

1. Alternative spelling of pikkolo.

• “piccolo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• picolo (post-1990 spelling)

From Italian piccolo.

• IPA^(key): /pi.kɔ.lo/

• Audio:

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piccolo m (plural piccolos)

1. (music) piccolo

• “piccolo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From German Piccolo, from Italian piccolo.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpikːolo]
• Hyphenation: pic‧co‧lo
• Rhymes: -loː

piccolo (plural piccolok)

1. (music) piccolo

   Synonyms: pikoló, kisfuvola, ottavino

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	piccolo	piccolók
accusative	piccolót	piccolókat
dative	piccolónak	piccolóknak
instrumental	piccolóval	piccolókkal
causal-final	piccolóért	piccolókért
translative	piccolóvá	piccolókká
terminative	piccolóig	piccolókig
essive-formal	piccoloként	piccolókként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	piccolóban	piccolókban
superessive	piccolón	piccolókon
adessive	piccolónál	piccolóknál
illative	piccolóba	piccolókba
sublative	piccolóra	piccolókra
allative	piccolóhoz	piccolókhoz
elative	piccolóból	piccolókból
delative	piccolóról	piccolókról
ablative	piccolótól	piccolóktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	piccolóé	piccolóké
non-attributive possessive - plural	piccolóéi	piccolókéi

Possessive forms of piccolo
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	piccolóm	piccolóim
2nd person sing.	piccolód	piccolóid
3rd person sing.	piccolója	piccolói
1st person plural	piccolónk	piccolóink
2nd person plural	piccolótok	piccolóitok
3rd person plural	piccolójuk	piccolóik

Uncertain. Possibly from:

• An onomatopoeic root or children's/nursery word *pikk-, *picc-.^[1]
• From Vulgar Latin *pikk (“little”), related to *piccāre (“to pierce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”).^[2]
• From picca (“point”).
• From Vulgar Latin pittitus (“small, worthless”), which is linked to French petit and English piece.^[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpik.ko.lo/^[4]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ikkolo
• Hyphenation: pìc‧co‧lo

piccolo (feminine piccola, masculine plural piccoli, feminine plural piccole, comparative più piccolo or minore, superlative minimo, diminutive piccolìno or piccolétto (“short person”) or (uncommon) piccolettìno, diminutive-augmentative piccolòtto (“short and stock person”))

1. small
2. little
3. young
4. (vulgar, slang) of the penis: small or not erected

• piccino

• grande
• grosso

• piccolezza
• piccolotto
• piccoletto

• micro-
• nano-

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “piccolo”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• pikolo

Unadapted borrowing from Italian piccolo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.kɔ.lɔ/, /piˈkɔ.lɔ/
• Rhymes: -ikɔlɔ, -ɔlɔ
• Syllabification: pi‧cco‧lo

piccolo n

1. piccolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute)

   Synonyms: flet piccolo, pikulina

piccolo m pers

1. (dated) potboy (boy or man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses)

   Synonym: pikolak

   Hypernym: służący

• piccolo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• piccolo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /ˈpikolo/ [ˈpi.ko.lo]
• Rhymes: -ikolo
• Syllabification: pic‧co‧lo

piccolo m (plural piccolos)

1. Alternative form of pícolo

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “piccolo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10