violinとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Italian violino (“little viola”), from viola + -ino (“forming diminutives”).

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌvaɪəˈlɪn/, [ˌvaɪ̯ɪ̈ˈlɪn]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌvɑeˈlɘn/, /ˌvɑe.ɘˈlɘn/
• 韻: -ɪn

名詞

violin (複数形 violins)

1. 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.
   • 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.

   When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like this, it's a violin.

2. (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.

3. (music, metonymically) The position of a violinist in an orchestra or group.

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

使用する際の注意点

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 かつ rock) depending whichever term seems more appropriate to the speaker.

同意語

• fiddle (see above), crowd (廃れた用法 または dialectical)

派生語

関連する語

• viol
• viola
• violoncello

派生した語

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

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

アナグラム

• olivin