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say it: fer-MAH-tah
fermata is a noun meaning "a musical notation (over a note or chord or rest) that indicates it is to be prolonged by an unspecified amount". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a musical notation (over a note or chord or rest) that indicates it is to be prolonged by an unspecified amount
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fermata come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.