rubato

Borrowed from Italian rubato (“robbed, stolen”), since the time is "borrowed".

• (General American) IPA^(key): /rəˈbɑ.toʊ/

rubato (countable and uncountable, plural rubatos or rubati)

1. (music) A tempo in which strict timing is relaxed, the music being played near, but not on, the beat.

   Synonym: tempo rubato

   • 2007, Michele Weir, Jazz Piano Handbook, Alfred Music Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:

     The etudes with metronome markings should be played in tempo, all others should be considered rubato.

• Aburto, Otruba, bar out, outbar, tabour

rubato m (plural rubatos)

1. rubato

• “rubato”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Unadapted borrowing from Italian rubato.

rubato

1. (music) rubato

• “rubato”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ruˈba.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ru‧bà‧to

rubato (feminine rubata, masculine plural rubati, feminine plural rubate)

1. past participle of rubare (“to steal”)

rubato (feminine rubata, masculine plural rubati, feminine plural rubate)

1. (music) rubato

Borrowed from Italian rubato (“stolen”). Doublet of roubado.

• Hyphenation: ru‧ba‧to

rubato m (plural rubatos)

1. (music) rubato (timing played near, but not on the beat)

• “rubato”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from Italian rubato.

rubato

1. rubato

rubato n (uncountable)

1. rubato