violinとは

語源

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

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌvaɪəˈlɪn/, [ˌvaɪ̯ɪ̈ˈlɪn]
• 韻: -ɪn

名詞

violin (複数形 violins)

1. (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 1227855:

     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.

2. (music) A violinist.

   The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.

同意語

• fiddle

派生語

関連する語

• viol
• viola
• violoncello

参考

• second fiddle

動詞

violin (三人称単数 現在形 violins, 現在分詞 violining, 過去形および過去分詞形 violined)

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

参考

• bass viol
• cello
• double bass
• viola
• first violinist
• second violinist

アナグラム

• olivin