cimpoi

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Probably from a Vulgar Latin root *centipollium, from Latin centipellium, centipellio (third stomach of a ruminant) < centum + pellium, as bagpipes were made from animal stomachs. Compare also Italian centopelle (tripe). Alternatively from the variant form cimpoaie, perhaps from an earlier *șimpoaie and this from Latin symphonia (compare Italian zampogna (bagpipe), Piedmontese ciamporgna; cf. also Portuguese sanfonha (hurdy-gurdy) and Romansch zampuogn (type of bell)) or Hungarian csimpolya, which seems more likely to have come from the Romanian word instead.

Noun

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cimpoi n (plural cimpoaie)

  1. bagpipe
    Synonym: gaidă
  2. stomach of a ruminant
  3. bellows
    Synonyms: foale, burduf

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