Italian words in English

1. A deciduous tree, Pistacia vera, grown in sections of Asia: The pistachio is small, of the cashew family, and produces drupaceous fruits with edible seeds that are quite green in color.
2. The nut from the this tree: At the ice cream parlor, Nancy ordered bowl of pistachio ice cream that looked quite green and tasted delicious!

Referring to how a music passage is to be played dramatically and with passion: Sherry put all of her heart into playing the section of the composition piece con passione and with lots of emotion

A flat round piece of dough covered with a tomato sauce and, cheese, and other saves food, like salami, vegetables, etc.: Virginia loved to eat pizza at the Italian restaurant in town after classes in the morning.

1. The side view of a person's head: In Lynn's study she had a framed picture of the>profile of Daniel Smith, one of her ancestors.
2. A summary of important details and information about a person: The police put together a profile of the suspect who stole Jane's necklace.

One of different amines created by putrefactive bacteria: Ptomaines, like cadaverine or putrescine, develop from decaying organic matter.

A small pillow-shaped pasta filled with cheese,meat, or other savory ingredients: Tomas loved to eat hand-made ravioli at his favorite restaurant in the city.

In a musical operas and oratorios, a narrative spoken by a soloist, in a rhythmically tree way, also accompanied by one or more orchestral instruments: Mark practiced the recitative many times with the musicians before he reached the correct rhythmic pattern.

1. A copy or a reproduction of a work of art: In the local museum there were many replicas of famous paintings and of very old vases.
2. Etymology: in 1824, from Italian replica, "copy, repetition, reply"; from Latin replicare, "to repeat".

In architecture, a round structure normally small and usually with a dome: The couple met secretly in the rotunda in the park after dark.

3A large well-seasoned sausage of either pork or beef: David liked to eat sandwiches with thinly sliced salami and tomatoes.

1. A written outline of a film, a novel, or a theatrical stage production giving details of the plot and individual scenes: Maxine presented the scenarios for four short stories to the publisher.
2. Etymology: from Latin scena and Italian, scena, "scene." © ALL rights are reserved.

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With the notes of the musical chords always struck in quick succession, as is the case when chords are "always played-upon-the-harp."

A piece of music to be sung or played by a single performer: In the recital program there was a solo to be played by a violinist.

A music composition for instruments: A sonata is, literally, something "sounded" as opposed to a cantata, or something "sung.

Sonatas are more narrowly defined as usually for a solo instrument and piano, and written in three or four movements of contrasting "tempi", or speeds.

1. In music, the part that is higher in pitch than alto: The song Jill had to sing was for soprano, and the notes were all in the treble cleff, which was quite a challenge for her to reach the highest notes!