adagio

adverb

1. Music. in a leisurely manner; slowly.

adjective

2. Music. slow.

noun, plural a·da·gios.

3. Music. an adagio movement or piece.
4. Dance.
   1. a sequence of well-controlled, graceful movements performed as a display of skill.
   2. a duet by a man and a woman or mixed trio emphasizing difficult technical feats.
   3. (especially in ballet) a love-duet sequence in a pas de deux.

adjective, adverb

1. (to be performed) slowly

noun plural -gios

2. a movement or piece to be performed slowly
3. ballet a slow section of a pas de deux

adv.

c.1746, “slowly, leisurely,” Italian, from ad agio, from ad “to, at” (see ad-) + agio “leisure,” from Vulgar Latin adjacens, present participle of adjacere “to lie at, to lie near” (cf. adjacent). In musical sense of “a slow movement” (n.), first attested 1784.

A very slow musical tempo.