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Castrato vs Spado - What's the difference?

castrato | spado |

As nouns the difference between castrato and spado

is that castrato is a male who has been castrated, especially a male whose testicles have been removed before puberty in order to retain his boyish voice while spado is someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.

As an adjective castrato

is (literally) castrated; especially castrated prepubescently.

castrato

English

(wikipedia castrato)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A male who has been castrated, especially a male whose testicles have been removed before puberty in order to retain his boyish voice.
  • A male soprano or alto voice produced by castration of the treble singer before puberty, intended to conserve his voice; the singer.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (literally) Castrated; especially castrated prepubescently.
  • Having, using or containing the voice of a castrato (noun) .
  • Originally composed for a castrato.
    • Nowadays, either women or countertenors take the castrato roles.

    Related terms

    * castrate * castratism

    See also

    * contratenor * contratenor altus * countertenor * eunuch * sopranista * soprano ----

    spado

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.
  • *1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.9:
  • *:an impotency, or total privation thereof, prolongeth life; and they live longest in every kind that exercise it not at all. And this is true, not only in eunuchs by nature, but spadoes by art [...].
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