different between belvedere vs pavilion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian belvedere (literally “fair view”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?l.v?.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?l.v??d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

belvedere (plural belvederes)

1. (architecture) A turret or other raised structure offering a pleasant view of the surrounding area.

Translations

Anagrams

• rebeveled

Italian

Etymology

From bel (“nice, fair, beautiful”, apocopic form of bello) +? vedere (“view, sight”, noun verb meaning “to see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?l.ve?de.re/
• Hyphenation: bel?ve?dé?re
• Rhymes: -ere

Noun

belvedere m (plural belvederi)

1. (architecture) belvedere (raised structure offering a pleasant view of the surrounding area)

   Synonym: terrazza panoramica

Descendants

• ? Polish: belweder

Adjective

belvedere (invariable)

1. Having good visibility (used especially of tourist coaches).

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• belveder
• belver

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian belvedere (literally “fair view”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?b?w.ve?d?.?i/

Noun

belvedere m (plural belvederes)

1. (architecture) belvedere (raised structure offering a pleasant view of the surrounding area)

   Synonym: torre de observação

Romanian

Etymology

From French belvédère.

Noun

belvedere f (uncountable)

1. belvedere

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin p?pili?nem, form of p?pili? (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin. Doublet of papillon.

Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??v?lj?n/

Noun

pavilion (plural pavilions)

1. An ornate tent.
2. A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
3. A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
4. (cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
5. A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
6. The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
7. (anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
8. (anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
9. (military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
   1. A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
10. (heraldry) A tent used as a bearing.
11. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.

Synonyms

• (part of ear): auricle, pinna

Related terms

• papillon

Translations

Verb

pavilion (third-person singular simple present pavilions, present participle pavilioning, simple past and past participle pavilioned)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a pavilion.
2. (transitive) To put inside a pavilion.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour").

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