# sotto
## English
### Etymology

Ellipsis of sotto voce.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈsəʊtəʊ/, /ˈsɒtəʊ/, [ˈsotːo]
* Rhymes: (UK) -əʊtəʊ, (UK) -ɒtəʊ

### Adverb

sotto (not comparable)
* Ellipsis of sotto voce.
** 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104:
    Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto.
** 2006 October 2nd, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “Pilot”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27):
    Wolowitz: Énchanté, mademoiselle. Howard Wolowitz, Cal Tech department of applied physics. You may be familiar with some of my work – – it’s currently toodling around the surface of Mars. Penny: Hi. Penny. Wolowitz: You smell wonderful. What is that scent you’re wearing? Penny: It’s called b.o. Wolowitz: Ah. Hence the shower, of course. Leonard, where have you been hiding this one? She’s charming. Sheldon: (SOTTO, TO LEONARD) Oh, he’s good.

#### Translations
### Adjective

sotto (not comparable)
* Ellipsis of sotto voce.
** 1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 237:
    Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.
** 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 7:‘Assuming these board scores are accurate reflectors of true capacity in this case,’ Academic Affairs says, his high voice serious and sotto, […]
** 2008, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child, page 192:The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto, intimate.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Totos, ottos, toots

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub. Ultimately from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo. Cognate to French sous.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsot.to/
* Rhymes: -otto
* Hyphenation: sót‧to
* Audio:(file)

### Preposition

sotto
* under, beneath, underneath
* below, south of

### Adverb

sotto
* down
* underneath
* below

#### Antonyms

* sopra

### Noun

sotto (invariable)
* bottom

#### Derived terms

* di sotto
* sott'olio
* sottaceti
* sottaceto
* sottana
* sotteramente
* sotterfugio
* sotterraneo
* sotterrare
* sottobanco
* sottobicchiere
* sottobosco
* sottobraccio
* sottoccupazione
* sottochiave
* sottocoperta
* sottocosto
* sottocutaneo
* sottoesporre
* sottoesposto
* sottofondo
* sottogamba
* sottogonna
* sottogoverno
* sottogruppo
* sottolineare
* sottolineatura
* sottomano
* sottomarino
* sottomesso
* sottomettere
* sottomissione
* sottopassaggio
* sottoporre
* sottoposto
* sottoprodotto
* sottoproduzione
* sottoproletariato
* sottoproletario
* sottordine
* sottoscala
* sottoscritto
* sottoscrivere
* sottoscrizione
* sottosegretario
* sottosopra
* sottospecie
* sottostante
* sottostare
* sottosterzante
* sottosuolo
* sottosviluppato
* sottosviluppo
* sottotenente
* sottoterra
* sottotetto
* sottotitolo
* sottovalutare
* sottovaso
* sottovento
* sottoveste
* sottovoce
* sottovuoto

### References

* ↑ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

### Anagrams

* Tosto, tosto, tostò

## Japanese
### Romanization

sotto
* Rōmaji transcription of そっと

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

From Latin subtus, from sub. Cognate to Italian sotto and French sous.

### Preposition

sotto
* below

## Ye'kwana
### Alternative forms

* so'to
* ssoto (Cunucunuma River dialect)
* soto (Brazil)

### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *wɨtoto (“person”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [sotto]

### Noun

sotto (possessed sottoi)
* person, human
* Ye'kwana speaker, Ye'kwana, Maquiritari
    Synonym: ye'kwana

### Numeral

sotto
* (as a component in other numerals) twenty

#### Derived terms

* aaköiche'a sotto
* aaköiche'a sotto de'wö amojadö
* aakö sotto
* aakö sotto de'wö amojadö
* aduwaawö sotto
* aduwaawö sotto de'wö amojadö
* ijatode'a sotto
* tooni sotto
* tooni sotto de'wö amojadö

### References

* Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sotto”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 113
* Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ssoto”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
* Hall, Katherine (2007) “ssoto”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
* de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “so’to”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN