different between aria vs ditty

English

Etymology

From Italian aria, metathesis from Latin ?erem, accusative of ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r, “air”). Doublet of air.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.???/

Noun

aria (plural arias or arie)

1. (music) A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

Translations

Anagrams

• Aari, Arai, RIAA, Raia

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin ??rea or ??re, from ??r.

Noun

aria f

1. air
2. appearance

French

Etymology

From Italian aria

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.?ja/

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

1. (music) aria

Italian

Etymology

Metathesis from Latin ?era, Greek-type accusative of ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r, “air”). See also aere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.rja/
• Hyphenation: à?ria

Noun

aria f (plural arie)

1. air
2. look, appearance, countenance
3. (plural only) airs
4. wind (all senses)
5. (music) aria, song

Related terms

Descendants

Anagrams

• arai

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuarria as an equivalent of English say and speak in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ia/

Verb

aria (infinitive kwaria)

1. to speak

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• mwario 3, rwario 11

Related terms

• mwar?rie 3

See also

• kw?ra, kuuga

References

Further reading

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Polish

Etymology

From Italian aria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar?.ja/

Noun

aria f

1. (music) aria

Declension

Further reading

• aria in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romansch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r, “air”).

Noun

aria f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) air

Synonyms

• (Sutsilvan) leer
• (Puter, Vallader) ajer

Saaroa

Alternative forms

• ariia

Noun

aria

1. axe

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?ja/, [?a.?ja]

Etymology 1

From Italian aria.

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

1. (music) aria (a musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata)

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: arya

Etymology 2

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

1. female equivalent of ario (“Aryan”)

Adjective

aria

1. feminine singular of ario

Further reading

• “aria” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

aria c

1. an aria

Declension

Descendants

• ? Finnish: aaria

English

Etymology

From Middle English dite, ditee, from Old French ditie or dité, from ditier, from Latin dict?re (participle dictatus).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?ti/
• Homophones: diddy (US)
• Rhymes: -?ti

Noun

ditty (plural ditties)

1. A short verse or tune.
   • 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments

     And to the warbling lute soft ditties sing.

2. A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated.

Translations

Verb

ditty (third-person singular simple present ditties, present participle dittying, simple past and past participle dittied)

1. To sing; to warble a little tune.

   • Beasts fain would sing; birds ditty to their notes.

See also

• ditty bag
• doggerel
• jingle