ostinato

From Italian ostinato (“stubborn”). Doublet of obstinate.

• IPA^(key): /ɒstɪˈnɑtoʊ/[1]

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ostinato (plural ostinatos or ostinati)

1. (music) A piece of melody, a chord progression, or a bass figure that is repeated over and over as a musical accompaniment.
   • 2009 January 26, Anthony Tommasini, “Pricking Up the Ears to Listen for Echoes of California”, in New York Times‎:

     The piece moves in alluring spans of swirling figures, jagged lines and pointillistic outbursts, often prodded forward by ostinatos in the perky piano.

Borrowed from Italian ostinato, from Latin obstinātus (“firmly set, fixed”). Doublet of obstina.

• IPA^(key): [ostiˈnato]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: os‧ti‧na‧to

ostinato (accusative singular ostinaton, plural ostinatoj, accusative plural ostinatojn)

1. (music) ostinato (melody or chord progression repeated in a piece of music)

• ripetfrazo (“riff”)

Borrowed from Italian ostinato.

• IPA^(key): /ˈostinɑto/, [ˈo̞s̠tiˌnɑ̝t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Syllabification^(key): os‧ti‧na‧to

ostinato

1. (music) ostinato

• soitanto, taistoon

ostinato m (plural ostinatos)

1. ostinato

• IPA^(key): /o.stiˈna.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: o‧sti‧nà‧to

From Latin obstinātus.

ostinato (feminine ostinata, masculine plural ostinati, feminine plural ostinate, superlative ostinatissimo)

1. stubborn, obstinate

ostinato m (plural ostinati, feminine ostinata)

1. a stubborn or obstinate person

ostinato (feminine ostinata, masculine plural ostinati, feminine plural ostinate)

1. past participle of ostinarsi

• ostinato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• asintoto

Unadapted borrowing from Italian ostinato.

ostinato

1. ostinato

ostinato n (uncountable)

1. ostinato