orchestre
English
Etymology
Noun
orchestre (plural orchestres)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “orchestre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra). The word was feminine (like its etymon) until the 18th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
orchestre m (plural orchestres)
Derived terms
Descendants
All are borrowed; some may be directly borrowed from Latin.
- Azerbaijani: orkestr
- Czech: orchestr
- Danish: orkester
- Dutch: orkest
- Georgian: ორკესტრი (orḳesṭri)
- German: Orchester
- Norwegian: orkester
- Persian: ارکستر (orkestr)
- Macedonian: оркестар (orkestar)
- Romanian: orchestră
- Russian: оркестр (orkestr)
- → Kazakh: оркестр (orkestr)
- Serbo-Croatian: orkestar / оркестар
- Swedish: orkester
- → Finnish: orkesteri
- Uzbek: orkestr
Further reading
- “orchestre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
orchestre f
Anagrams
Norman
Etymology
From Latin orchēstra, from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra), from ὀρχοῦμαι (orkhoûmai, “to dance”).
Noun
orchestre m (plural orchestres)
Romanian
Noun
orchestre f pl
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