tympan
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin tympanum.
Noun[edit]
tympan (plural tympans)
- (printing) A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
- (music) The stretched membrane of a drum.
- (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.
- (architecture) A tympanum.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin tympanum. Doublet of timbre, which was inherited.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tympan m (plural tympans)
- (anatomy) eardrum
- (anatomy) middle ear
- (architecture) tympanum
- (historical) treadwheel, treadmill
- (by extension) hydraulic wheel
- (dated or literary, music) various percussion instruments, such as gongs, tympans, tambourines, etc.
- (printing) tympan
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “tympan” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Categories:
- English terms derived from Medieval Latin
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Printing
- en:Music
- en:Architecture
- French terms borrowed from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French doublets
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- fr:Anatomy
- fr:Architecture
- French terms with historical senses
- fr:Music
- fr:Printing
