Translation
violin
Word origin
From French violon, from Italian violino, a diminutive of viola, and behind that Medieval Latin vitula, a stringed instrument. Esperanto borrowed the finished French word rather than the Italian diminutive.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- viola
- English cognates
- violin, viola, fiddle
Examples
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She plays the violin every evening.
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The violin lay on the table by the window.
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He learned the violin for ten years.
Watch the shape of this word: looks like - with the fraction suffix -on- stuck on it, the way is a half. It is nothing of the kind. - is a single indivisible root borrowed whole from French, and the proof is what the bigger instruments are called: the cello is violonĉelo and the double bass kontrabaso, neither of them built with an Esperanto augmentative. You play it with , and the player is a .
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