arioso (areoso)

[It., cially with reference to recitative pa ages which are treated more in the smooth and melodious style of airs than in the ordinary style of recitatives. In instrumental music indicates stand aboral style, appropriate to it flowing Prefixed the great airs of an opera. -arious. [Accom. of L. -arius: see -aryl and -ous.] A suffix of Latin origin, another form of -aryl, but used only in adjectives, as in ad vers a rio us, arena rio us, cal carious (now erroneously calcareous ), gregarious, vicarious, etc.