FromLatinimprovisus(“unforeseen”); compareItalianimprovviso.

improviso (notcomparable)

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

• “improviso”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

improviso

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofimprovisar

improviso

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofimprovisar

• inprōvīsō

imprōvīsō

1. dative/ablativemasculine/neutersingular ofimprōvīsus

• dē imprōvīsō

• “improviso”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• Hyphenation:im‧pro‧vi‧so

Borrowed fromLatinimprōvīsus(“unforeseen”).

improviso m (pluralimprovisos)

1. improvisation(act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, without prior preparation)
2. makeshift(a temporary, usually insubstantial, substitution for something else)

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

improviso

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofimprovisar

• IPA^(key): /impɾoˈbiso/[ĩm.pɾoˈβ̞i.so]
• Rhymes:-iso
• Syllabification:im‧pro‧vi‧so

FromLatinimprōvīsus.

improviso (feminineimprovisa,masculine pluralimprovisos,feminine pluralimprovisas)

1. unannounced;out of the blue

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

improviso

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofimprovisar

• “improviso”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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