violin
English
Etymology
From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino
Pronunciation
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Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪn
Noun
violin (plural violins)
- (music) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.
- (music) A violinist.
- The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.
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string instrument
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Verb
violin (third-person singular simple present violins, present participle violining, simple past and past participle violined)
- (transitive, intransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin.
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violin
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Danish
Etymology
From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.
Pronunciation
Noun
violin c (singular definite violinen, plural indefinite violiner)
Declension
Declension of violin
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | violin | violinen | violiner | violinerne |
genitive | violins | violinens | violiners | violinernes |
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Piedmontese
Pronunciation
Noun
violin m (plural violin)
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