contrabajo
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly a calque of Italian contrabbasso. By surface analysis, contra- + bajo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]contrabajo m (plural contrabajos)
- (music) double bass [mid-18th c.]
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “contrabajo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- “contrabajo”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN
Categories:
- Spanish terms calqued from Italian
- Spanish terms derived from Italian
- Spanish terms prefixed with contra-
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/axo
- Rhymes:Spanish/axo/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Musical instruments