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andante

/anˈdante/

adjective/anˈdante/

walking, who roams, who wanders, errant

Caballero andante.Knight-errant.

Related: caballero andante

Etymology tree Spanish andar Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -antem Spanish -ante Spanish andante From andar (“to walk”) + -ante.

noun, masculine/feminine/anˈdante/plural: andantes

roamer (one who roams)

Etymology tree Spanish andar Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -antem Spanish -ante Spanish andante From andar (“to walk”) + -ante.

noun, masculine/anˈdante/plural: andantes

a tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a moderately slow tempo; faster than adagio but slower than allegretto; a passage having this mark

Borrowed from Italian andante (“going”).

adjective/anˈdante/

played in a moderately slow tempo

Borrowed from Italian andante (“going”).

adverb/anˈdante/

with a moderately slow tempo

Borrowed from Italian andante (“going”).