sotto voce

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   in an undertone

   “he uttered a curse sotto voce”

Questions about sotto voce

What does sotto voce mean?

sotto voce means "in an undertone".

Is sotto voce a common word?

sotto voce is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.