piccolo

Etymology

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

noun

1. (music, obsolete) A piccolo piano.
2. A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
3. (music, rare) An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
4. A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
5. (US, chiefly Southern US and New York) A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
6. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.

adj

1. Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments.
   There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet. 1945, Christian Darnton, You and Music, 2nd edition, New York: Pelican Books, retrieved 2022-02-20, page 65