fife
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From German Pfeife. Doublet of pipe. The word is unrelated to Fife in Scotland.
Noun
fife (plural fifes)
- A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
Translations
small shrill pipe
|
Verb
fife (third-person singular simple present fifes, present participle fifing, simple past and past participle fifed)
- To play this instrument.
Etymology 2
Numeral
fife
See also
Anagrams
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
fife
Declension
Inflection of fife (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
---|---|---|---|
nominative | fife | fifet | |
genitive | fifen | fifejen | |
partitive | fifeä | fifejä | |
illative | fifeen | fifeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | fife | fifet | |
accusative | nom. | fife | fifet |
gen. | fifen | ||
genitive | fifen | fifejen | |
partitive | fifeä | fifejä | |
inessive | fifessä | fifeissä | |
elative | fifestä | fifeistä | |
illative | fifeen | fifeihin | |
adessive | fifellä | fifeillä | |
ablative | fifeltä | fifeiltä | |
allative | fifelle | fifeille | |
essive | fifenä | fifeinä | |
translative | fifeksi | fifeiksi | |
abessive | fifettä | fifeittä | |
instructive | — | fifein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
- fife-huilu
- sveitsinhuilu
Italian
Noun
fife f
Categories:
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/aɪf
- Rhymes:English/aɪf/1 syllable
- English terms borrowed from German
- English terms derived from German
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English numerals
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ife
- Rhymes:Finnish/ife/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Musical instruments
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian noun forms