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violin

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See also: Violin and violín

English

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A violin

Etymology

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Etymology tree
Medieval Latin *vitulader.
Old Occitan violabor.?
Italian viola
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
Italian -ino
Italian violinoder.
English violin

    Derived from Italian violino (“little viola”), from viola + -ino.

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    Noun

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    violin (plural violins)

    2. (music) A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.
      When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like this, it's a violin.
    3. (inexact, sometimes proscribed) Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas and cellos, and sometimes further including the double bass.
      The string quartet, one of the most popular groupings in chamber music, is composed entirely of violins: two violins proper, one viola, and one cello.
    4. (music, metonymic) A violinist in an orchestra or group.
      The violins are seated with sufficient elbow room.
      She is first violin in the London Symphony Orchestra.

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    The distinction between violins and fiddles is typically contextual and cultural. The same instrument is considered a violin when playing classical music in formal settings, a fiddle when playing folk or country music, and variously described in other settings (such as jazz and rock) depending whichever term seems more appropriate to the speaker.

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    Descendants

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    • → Japanese: バイオリン (baiorin)
    • → Korean: 바이올린 (baiollin)
    • → Marshallese: baeoliin

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    Verb

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    violin (third-person singular simple present violins, present participle violining, simple past and past participle violined)

    1. (ambitransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin.

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    Catalan

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    Verb

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    violin

    1. inflection of violar:
      1. third-person plural present subjunctive
      2. third-person plural imperative

    Danish

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    Etymology

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    From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /violiːn/, [vioˈliːˀn]
    • Rhymes: -in

    Noun

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    violin c (singular definite violinen, plural indefinite violiner)

    1. violin

    Declension

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    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

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    Noun

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    violin m (plural violin)

    1. violin

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    Noun

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    violin c

    1. (music, somewhat formal) violin
      Synonym: fiol

    Declension

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    Declension of violin
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite violin violins
    definite violinen violinens
    plural indefinite violiner violiners
    definite violinerna violinernas

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