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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

improviso en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin improvisus (“unforeseen”); compare Italian improvviso.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) Not prepared beforehand; unpremeditated; extemporaneous.
    • a. 1784, Samuel Johnson, "Improviso Translation of the following lines of M. Benserade A Son Lit"