etude

See also: Etude, étude, and Etüde

English

Alternative forms

• étude

Etymology

From around the year 1837, from French étude (“study”) from the Latin studium (“spirit", "devotion" or "study”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /eɪˈtjuːd/, /eɪˈtuːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪˌtud/, /ˈeɪˌtjud/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

etude (plural etudes)

1. (music) A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill.

Synonyms

• (a song written as an exercise): study

Translations

piece of music

• Azerbaijani: etüd
• Bulgarian: етюд (bg) (etjud)
• Catalan: estudi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 練習曲 (zh), 练习曲 (zh) (liànxíqǔ)

• Czech: etuda f
• Danish: etude c
• Dutch: etude (nl) f
• Estonian: etüüd
• Finnish: etydi (fi)
• German: Etüde (de) f
• Hebrew: אֶטיוּד‎
• Hungarian: etűd (hu)
• Icelandic: etýða f, æfing (is) f
• Italian: studio (it) m

• Japanese: 練習曲 (れんしゅうきょく, renshūkyoku)
• Korean: 연습곡 (yeonseupgok)
• Latvian: etīde
• Lithuanian: etiudas
• Macedonian: ети́да f (etída)
• Polish: etiuda (pl) f
• Portuguese: étude (pt) m
• Russian: этю́д (ru) m (etjúd)
• Slovak: etuda f
• Slovene: etida f, etuda f
• Spanish: estudio (es) m
• Swedish: etyd (sv) c
• Turkish: etüt (tr)
• Ukrainian: етюд (uk) (etjud)
• Uzbek: etyud (uz)

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Danish

Noun

etude c (singular definite etuden, plural indefinite etuder)

1. etude

Declension

Declension of etude

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	etude	etuden	etuder	etuderne
genitive	etudes	etudens	etuders	etudernes

Further reading

• “etude” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “etude” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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Indonesian

Etymology

From French étude (“study”), from Old French estude (“study”), from the Latin studium (“spirit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /etudɛ/
• Hyphenation: étu‧dè

Noun

étudè (plural, first-person possessive etudeku, second-person possessive etudemu, third-person possessive etudenya)

1. (music) etude

Further reading

• “etude” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.