Current theme: British Tennis Week in association with British Tennis
fermata
Word of the day View Archives
2008 Sep 18To view this video you need version 8 or higher of the Flash plugin installed and javascript enabled in your browser.
noun, music. another word for pause
Tweetymologies
How people on twitter are using the word fermata
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.
fermata
- 1) noun, music. another word for pause
Etymology
from Italian, from fermare to stop, from Latin firmāre to establish; see firm1
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
this guy's awesome. Saw him doing stand up at the Edinburgh Festival. He's gonna be big
It's an Italian word (like "bus-stop")