partitura

See also: partitúra

English

Noun

partitura (plural partituras)

1. sheet music; score
   • 1973, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Nikolaev, John Field, page 69:

     Evidently the partituras for the concertos were never published as they cannot be found in archives in the USSR and in the great libraries of Leipzig and London.

   • 1981, Samuel Vigoda, Legendary Voices: The Fascinating Lives of the Great Cantors, page 224:

     He gained free access to the partituras, and whenever he had the opportunity, he would clandestinely copy the valuable musical manuscripts of the master […]

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian partitura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pər.tiˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paɾ.tiˈtu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa

Noun

partitura f (plural partitures)

1. (music) score

Related terms

• partir

Further reading

• “partitura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “partitura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “partitura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “partitura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpartɪtura]

Noun

partitura f

1. (music) score

Declension

Declension of partitura (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	partitura	partitury
genitive	partitury	partitur
dative	partituře	partiturám
accusative	partituru	partitury
vocative	partituro	partitury
locative	partituře	partiturách
instrumental	partiturou	partiturami

Related terms

• See part

Further reading

• “partitura”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “partitura”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “partitura”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Italian

Etymology

From partire (“I divide, part”), the rare, literary word, not its more common homonym meaning to depart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /par.tiˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: par‧ti‧tù‧ra

Noun

partitura f (plural partiture)

1. (music) score
2. (rare) partition, division

Descendants

• → Catalan: partitura
• → Portuguese: partitura
• → Romanian: partitură
• → Spanish: partitura
• → Greek: παρτιτούρα (partitoúra)

Further reading

• partitura in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• partitura in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• partitura in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• partitura in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• partitura in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• partitura in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• partitura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

• partītūra: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /par.tiːˈtuː.ra/, [pärt̪iːˈt̪uːrä]
• partītūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /par.tiˈtu.ra/, [pärt̪iˈt̪uːrä]
• partītūrā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /par.tiːˈtuː.raː/, [pärt̪iːˈt̪uːräː]
• partītūrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /par.tiˈtu.ra/, [pärt̪iˈt̪uːrä]

Participle

partītūra

1. inflection of partītūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

partītūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of partītūrus

References

• partitura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian partitura.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paʁ.t͡ʃiˈtu.ɾɐ/ [pah.t͡ʃiˈtu.ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paʁ.t͡ʃiˈtu.ɾɐ/ [pah.t͡ʃiˈtu.ɾɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /paɾ.t͡ʃiˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /paʁ.t͡ʃiˈtu.ɾɐ/ [paχ.t͡ʃiˈtu.ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /paɻ.t͡ʃiˈtu.ɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐɾ.tiˈtu.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: par‧ti‧tu‧ra

Noun

partitura f (plural partituras)

1. (music) sheet music (written musical notation)

Further reading

• “partitura”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “partitura”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “partitura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “partitura”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “partitura”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “partitura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /partitǔːra/
• Hyphenation: par‧ti‧tu‧ra

Noun

partitúra f (Cyrillic spelling партиту́ра)

1. score (music)

Declension

Declension of partitura

	singular	plural
nominative	partitura	partiture
genitive	partiture	partitura
dative	partituri	partiturama
accusative	partituru	partiture
vocative	partituro	partiture
locative	partituri	partiturama
instrumental	partiturom	partiturama

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian partitura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paɾtiˈtuɾa/ [paɾ.t̪iˈt̪u.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: par‧ti‧tu‧ra

Noun

partitura f (plural partituras)

1. (music) score

Further reading

• “partitura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28