Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to arpeggio
Participle: arpeggioed
Gerund: arpeggioing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | arpeggio |
| you | arpeggio |
| he;she;it | arpeggioes |
| we | arpeggio |
| you | arpeggio |
| they | arpeggio |
Perfect
| I | have arpeggioed |
| you | have arpeggioed |
| he;she;it | has arpeggioed |
| we | have arpeggioed |
| you | have arpeggioed |
| they | have arpeggioed |
Past
| I | arpeggioed |
| you | arpeggioed |
| he;she;it | arpeggioed |
| we | arpeggioed |
| you | arpeggioed |
| they | arpeggioed |
Pluperfect
| I | had arpeggioed |
| you | had arpeggioed |
| he;she;it | had arpeggioed |
| we | had arpeggioed |
| you | had arpeggioed |
| they | had arpeggioed |
Future
| I | will arpeggio |
| you | will arpeggio |
| he;she;it | will arpeggio |
| we | will arpeggio |
| you | will arpeggio |
| they | will arpeggio |
Future Perfect
| I | will have arpeggioed |
| you | will have arpeggioed |
| he;she;it | will have arpeggioed |
| we | will have arpeggioed |
| you | will have arpeggioed |
| they | will have arpeggioed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | arpeggio |
| you | arpeggio |
| he;she;it | arpeggio |
| we | arpeggio |
| you | arpeggio |
| they | arpeggio |
Perfect
| I | have arpeggioed |
| you | have arpeggioed |
| he;she;it | have arpeggioed |
| we | have arpeggioed |
| you | have arpeggioed |
| they | have arpeggioed |
Imperfect
| I | arpeggioed |
| you | arpeggioed |
| he;she;it | arpeggioed |
| we | arpeggioed |
| you | arpeggioed |
| they | arpeggioed |
Pluperfect
| I | had arpeggioed |
| you | had arpeggioed |
| he;she;it | had arpeggioed |
| we | had arpeggioed |
| you | had arpeggioed |
| they | had arpeggioed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would arpeggio |
| you | would arpeggio |
| he;she;it | would arpeggio |
| we | would arpeggio |
| you | would arpeggio |
| they | would arpeggio |
Perfect
| I | would have arpeggioed |
| you | would have arpeggioed |
| he;she;it | would have arpeggioed |
| we | would have arpeggioed |
| you | would have arpeggioed |
| they | would have arpeggioed |
Imperative
| you | arpeggio |
| we | Let's arpeggio |
| you | arpeggio |
Verbs conjugated like 'arpeggio'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'arpeggio'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian arpeggio, from arpeggiare (“to play a harp”).
Sample Sentences
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1819, Abraham Rees (ed.), The Cyclopædia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 14, entry “Fingering on Keyed Instruments,”
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In practising quick passages, the fingers should be lifted up with a spring, and not allowed to hang on the keys, till wanted again, unless in arpeggioing chords, or in passages of expression.
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[…] I could see a man with his head buried forward towards a key-board, and his body swaying from side to side amid the storm of huge arpeggioed harmonies that came crashing overhead and round. [1872, Samuel Butler, chapter 4, in Erewhon […] , London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 29:]
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[…] having finished her piano-forte practice, touched her harp twice, and arpeggioed the Spanish Fandango on her guitar, Miss Betty read two paragraphs of “Gilbert” […] [1902, Booth Tarkington, chapter 1, in The Two Vanrevels, New York: McClure, Phillips, page 11:]
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When his fingers touched the piano, he formed a D7 chord, arpeggioed it up the inversions, then started singing and playing the “Happy Birthday” song. [1990, Marcel Montecino, Big Time, New York: William Morrow, Book 3, p. 197:]
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Herr Schlitz seated himself on the piano chair, pushed it a little back, drew it a little forward to the original place, looked under the piano at the pedals, took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and hands, and after arpeggioing up and down the keyboard, swung into a waltz of Chopin’s […] [1898, Edward Noyes Westcott, chapter 37, in David Harum, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 314:]
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The soaring sound [of the whistling] rippled and trilled and arpeggioed as the songs of wild birds do not; [1909, O. Henry, “Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 357:]
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The accordion player arpeggioed through a chord […] [2012, Roshi Fernando, “At the Barn Dance”, in Homesick, New York: Vintage, page 166:]
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Her hand was still arpeggioing softly on his arm. [1931, Kate O’Brien, Without My Cloak, London: Penguin, published 1987, Book 2, Chapter 8, p. 187:]
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the prickle of horripilation which arpeggioed my spine as I came barrelling down the hill from that ghost house [1966, Richard Lancaster, Piegan: A Look from Within at the Life, Times, and Legacy of an American Indian Tribe, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 168:]
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While we thanked him for having us and told him the car was packed, and so on, he arpeggioed his stumpy fingers across his scarlet blanket. [2009, Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Hidden Roads, London: Quercus, page 136:]