soprano – English noun declension

English noun forms of soprano

Noun: soprano
Singularsoprano
Pluralsopranos; soprani; sopranoes

Sample Sentences

  • boy soprano
  • soprano saxophone
  • I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos. [2008, Denis Norden, chapter 8, in Chips from a Life, →ISBN:]

Nouns inflected like soprano

soprano, crescendo, basso,

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, adjective from preposition Latin super (“above”). Doublet of sovereign, from the same Latin root via Old French. See: Italian Nouns 'soprano', Latin Nouns 'super'.