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spin⋅to

  [spin-toh; It. speen-taw]
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–adjective
having a lyric quality with a strong, dramatic element: a spinto soprano voice.
Origin:
1940–45; < It: lit., excessive, pushed, ptp. of spingere to push < VL *expingere, equiv. to L ex- ex- 1 + -pingere, comb. form of pangere to set, plant, arrange
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spin·to   (spĭn'tō)   
adj.  Of, relating to, or being a lyric operatic voice with some attributes of the dramatic voice: a spinto soprano.

[Italian, past participle of spingere, to push, from Vulgar Latin *expingere : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin pangere, to fasten; see impinge.]
spin'to n.
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