coloratura

Meaning of coloratura

noun

elaborate ornamentation of a vocal melody, especially in operatic singing.
Penelope bursts into joyful cascades of coloratura
a coloratura aria

Italian, literally ‘colouring’, from Latin colorare ‘to colour’.

Information about coloratura

It is a name.
The plural form of coloratura is: coloraturas.
Languages in which coloratura is used:
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Hyphenation of coloratura

col-oratura

It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
coloratura is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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