orchestraとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹkəstɹə/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːkəstɹə/
• ハイフネーション: or‧ches‧tra

名詞

Orchestra of the 18th Century

orchestra (plural orchestras or (まれに) orchestrae)

1. (music) A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.
   • 1941 February, Voyageur, “The Railways of Greece”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:

     It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles.

2. A semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic theatres.
3. The area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit, immediately in front of and below the stage, sometimes (also) used by other performers.

派生語

派生した語

アナグラム

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Latin

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /orˈkʰeːs.tra/, [ɔrˈkʰeːs̠t̪rä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /orˈkes.tra/, [orˈkɛst̪rä]

名詞

orchēstra f (genitive orchēstrae); first declension

1. orchestra (area in front of a stage)

語形変化

First-declension noun, with locative.

派生した語

All are borrowed.

参照

• “orchestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “orchestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orchestra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “orchestra”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “orchestra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “orchestra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin