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secondo

American  
[si-kon-doh, -kohn-, se-kawn-daw] / sɪˈkɒn doʊ, -ˈkoʊn-, sɛˈkɔn dɔ /

noun

Music.
secondi plural
  1. the second or lower part in a duet, especially in a piano duet.

  2. the performer playing this part.


secondo British  
/ sɛˈkɒndəʊ /

noun

  1. the left-hand part in a piano duet Compare primo

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of secondo

From Italian, dating back to 1840–50; see origin at second 1

Example Sentences

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To an Italian, they're completely incomprehensible, because pasta is a primo piatto, a first course, and meat is a secondo, and never the twain shall meet.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2023

Objectively speaking, this was a meal, yet not enough of one, not when the Adriatic soft-shell crab known as moeche were available as a secondo.

From New York Times • May 16, 2017

I don't want to be the one who always has to play secondo.

From The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day by Galt, Katherine Keene

He himself was, naturally, primo tenore, being assisted by the younger Crivelli as the secondo.

From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling

Fate il passo secondo il gamba--don't stretch your legs farther than the bedcover goes, and don't do more, nor less, than what is right for your Marianna.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

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