different between couchant vs violin

English

Etymology

From Middle English couchant, from Middle French couchant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ka?t??nt/

Adjective

couchant (not comparable)

1. (of an animal) Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.
   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     The dogs, with eager yelp,
     Are struggling to be free;
     The hawks in frequent stoop
     Token their haste for flight;
     And couchant on the saddle-bow,
     With tranquil eyes, and talons sheath’d,
     The ounce expects his liberty.

   • 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14.

     There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XX

     Two figures faced each other, large, austere;

     A couchant sphinx in shadow to the breast,

     An angel standing in the moonlight clear;

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 91

     Or again, have you ever watched fine collie dogs couchant at twenty yards' distance?

2. (heraldry) Represented as crouching with the head raised.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:

     His crest was covered with a couchant Hownd, / And all his armour seem'd of antique mould [...].

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.???/

Noun

couchant m (plural couchants)

1. the setting sun
2. the sunset
3. the west
4. (literary) old age, decline, termination

Verb

couchant

1. present participle of coucher

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cowchaunte

Etymology

From Middle French couchant, from Old French couchant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?t?ant/

Noun

couchant

1. (rare) Lying down; couchant.
2. (rare) Displaying deference and humility.

Descendants

• English: couchant

References

• “c?uchant, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.

Middle French

Verb

couchant (feminine singular couchante, masculine plural couchans, feminine plural couchantes)

1. present participle of coucher
2. (may be preceded by en, invariable) gerund of coucher

Adjective

couchant m (feminine singular couchante, masculine plural couchans, feminine plural couchantes)

1. lying down

Old French

Verb

couchant

1. present participle of couchier

Adjective

couchant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular couchant)

1. lying down

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?va???l?n/, [?va?????l?n]
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?v?e?l?n/, /?v?e.??l?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

violin (plural 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.

   Synonym: fiddle
2. (music) A violinist.

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• viol
• viola
• violoncello

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (baiorin)
• ? Korean: ???? (baiollin)

Translations

Verb

violin (third-person singular simple present violins, present participle violining, simple past and past participle violined)

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

See also

• bass viol
• cello
• double bass
• viola

Anagrams

• olivin

Catalan

Verb

violin

1. third-person plural present subjunctive form of violar
2. third-person plural imperative form of violar

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /violi?n/, [vio?li??n]
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

violin c (singular definite violinen, plural indefinite violiner)

1. violin

Declension

References

• “violin” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “violin” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vju?li?/

Noun

violin m (plural violin)

1. violin