Dictionary

piccolo en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpɪkəloʊ/ (US)
• /ˈpɪkələʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

Meanings

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

piccolo en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpɪkəloʊ/ (US)
• /ˈpɪkələʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

Meanings

1. A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
2. An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
3. (obsolete) A piccolo piano.
4. A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
   • [A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs. 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Soul of Laploshka”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 71:
5. (New-York, Southern-US, US) 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.

Forms

Deriveds

puccalo · piccoloist

Synonyms

quarter bottle · snipe · busser · octave flute · commis waiter · omnibus

Translations (55)

ro piccolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · es flautín (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · sk pikola (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · el πίκολο (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · ru пи́кколо (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · sl mala flavta (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · ja ピッコロ (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · cmn 短笛 (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · fi piccolohuilu (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · mi pōrutu Pākehā (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · de Piccoloflöte (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · pt flautim (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · ca flautí (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · bg пиколо (bottle of champagne) · id pikolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · cs pikola (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · hu piccolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · mr पिक्कोलो (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · nl piccolo (bottle of champagne) · pl flet piccolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · gl pícolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · nb pikkolofløyte (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · pt piccolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · ca octaví (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · pl pikulina (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · nl piccolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · sv piccolaflöjt (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · it piccolo (bottle of champagne) · da piccolofløjte (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · nn pikkolofløyte (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · fo pikkolofloyta (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · ru фле́йта-пи́кколо (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · es pícolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · fi piccolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · hi पिकॉलो (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · yue 短笛 (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · pl pikolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · hu pikoló (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · it ottavino (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · fr piccolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · sv piccolaflaska (bottle of champagne) · et pikoloflööt (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · ga fliúiteog (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · fr quart (bottle of champagne) · haw pikolō (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · pl piccolo (bottle of champagne) · tl plawtin (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · bg пиколо (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · fi pikkolopullo (bottle of champagne) · ca piccolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · fi pikkolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · fr piccolo (bottle of champagne) · pl piccolo (small, high-pitched transverse flute) · de Piccolo (bottle of champagne) · sw filimbi ndogo (small, high-pitched transverse flute)