A passage having this mark.
Any sound resembling a musical staccato.
According to the syllable-timed hypothesis, Spanish syllables as staccato.
played in this style
Now, play the same passage very staccato.
Describing a passage having this mark.
Made up of abruptly disconnected parts or sounds.
The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
Borrowed from Italian staccato (“detached, disconnected”), past participle of staccare (“to detach, separate”), aphetic variant of distaccare (“to separate, detach”), from Middle French destacher (“to...
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