arioso
noun
arioso is a noun meaning “A musical style, in opera and oratorio, that is more melodic than recitative, but less so than aria” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-I-O-S-O, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of arioso is ariosos or ariosi.
What does arioso mean?
noun
- 1
A musical style, in opera and oratorio, that is more melodic than recitative, but less so than aria.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of arioso
- ariosos plural
- ariosi plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is arioso?
Arioso appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Arioso in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a musical style similar to aria:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does arioso come from?
Borrowed from Italian arioso.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).