tympanum

English

Noun

tympanum (plural tympanums or tympani)

1. (architecture) A triangular space between the sides of a pediment.
2. The middle ear.
3. The eardrum.
4. A hearing organ in frogs, toads and some insects.

Quotations

• 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback, page 9

  It was a black-and-white picture of a Romanesque doorway, with flanking saints and a lively Last Judgement in the tympanum [...].

Translations

triangular space between the sides of a pediment

Catalan: timpà (ca) m. Finnish: tympanon (fi), tympaani (fi)

Icelandic: gaflflötur (is) m. Italian: timpano (it) m.

middle ear — see middle ear

eardrum — see eardrum

hearing organ

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Latin

Noun

tympanum (genitive tympanī); n, second declension

1. drum, timbrel, tambour, tambourine

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	tympanum	tympana
genitive	tympanī	tympanōrum
dative	tympanō	tympanīs
accusative	tympanum	tympana
ablative	tympanō	tympanīs
vocative	tympanum	tympana