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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
sordino
 
SYLLABICATION:sor·di·no
PRONUNCIATION:  sôr-dn
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. sor·di·ni (-n)
Music A mute for an instrument.
ETYMOLOGY:Italian, diminutive of sordo, deaf, mute, from sordo, deaf, mute, from Latin surdus.
 
 
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