sotto

Ellipsis of sotto voce.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊtəʊ/, /ˈsɒtəʊ/, [ˈsotːo]
• Rhymes: (UK) -əʊtəʊ, (UK) -ɒtəʊ

sotto (not comparable)

1. Ellipsis of sotto voce.
   • 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104:

     Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto.

   • 2006 October 2nd, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “Pilot”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27):

     Wolowitz:   Énchanté, mademoiselle. Howard Wolowitz, Cal Tech department of applied physics. You may be familiar with some of my work – – it’s currently toodling around the surface of Mars.
     Penny:   Hi. Penny.
     Wolowitz:   You smell wonderful. What is that scent you’re wearing?
     Penny:   It’s called b.o.
     Wolowitz:   Ah. Hence the shower, of course. Leonard, where have you been hiding this one? She’s charming.
     Sheldon:   (SOTTO, TO LEONARD)   Oh, he’s good.

sotto (not comparable)

1. Ellipsis of sotto voce.
   • 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 237:

     Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 7:

     ‘Assuming these board scores are accurate reflectors of true capacity in this case,’ Academic Affairs says, his high voice serious and sotto, […]

   • 2008, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child, page 192:

     The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto, intimate.

• Totos, ottos, toots

From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub.[1] Ultimately from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo. Cognate to French sous.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsot.to/
• Rhymes: -otto
• Hyphenation: sót‧to

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sotto

1. under, beneath, underneath
2. below, south of

sotto

1. down
2. underneath
3. below

• sopra

sotto (invariable)

1. bottom

• Tosto, tosto, tostò

sotto

1. Rōmaji transcription of そっと

From Latin subtus, from sub. Cognate to Italian sotto and French sous.

sotto

1. below

• so'to
• ssoto (Cunucunuma River dialect)
• soto (Brazil)

From Proto-Cariban *wɨtoto (“person”).

• IPA^(key): [sotto]

sotto (possessed sottoi)

1. person, human
2. Ye'kwana speaker, Ye'kwana, Maquiritari

sotto

1. (as a component in other numerals) twenty

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sotto”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 113
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ssoto”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ssoto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “so’to”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN