violin
pronunciation
How to pronounce violin in British English:
UK [ˌvaɪəˈlɪn]
How to pronounce violin in American English:
US [ˌvaɪəˈlɪn]
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- Noun:
- bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
Word Origin
- violin
- violin: [16] Violin has been traced back to Vulgar Latin *vītula ‘stringed instrument’, which was based ultimately on the name of Vītula, a Roman goddess of joy and victory (and has also, via a prehistoric Germanic borrowing, given English fiddle). The Vulgar Latin term passed via Provençal viola and Old French viole into English as viol [15], which survives as the name of an early form of stringed instrument. Its Italian counter-part is viola, which has given English viola [18], and its diminutive form violino is the source of violin.=> fiddle, viola
- violin (n.)
- 1570s, from Italian violino, diminutive of viola (see viola). The modern form of the smaller, medieval viola da braccio.
Example
- 1. Music is time , said the violin master .
- 2. He grew up consumed with homework , learning chinese , piano and violin .
- 3. The guitar has never been collectivised or corralled into an orchestra like the violin .
- 4. Drug dealing has considerably more overlap with business than playing the violin or climbing a mountain .
- 5. Typically , an infant prodigy on the violin or piano will go from zero to concerto in two years .