different between cymbal vs crotale

English

Etymology

From Middle English cymbal, from Old English cimbal, cimbala and Old French cimbale, both from Latin cymbalum (“cymbal”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (kúmbalon), from ????? (kúmb?, “bowl”). See also chime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?mb?l/, [?s?mb??]
• Rhymes: -?mb?l
• Homophone: symbol

Noun

cymbal (plural cymbals)

1. (music) A concave plate of brass or bronze that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like.
   • 1605–08, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V, sc. 3:

     The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes,

     Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans,

     Make the sun dance.

   • 1611, King James Version, 1 Corinthians 13:1:

     Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, Act V:

     Trumpets and Drums shall fright her from the Throne,

     As sounding Cymbals aid the lab'ring Moon.

   • 1881–82, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, "The Mystic Trumpeter":

     I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies—hark, how the cymbals clang ...

Hyponyms

• china

Derived terms

• cymbalist
• splash cymbal

Translations

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?m?b??l/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

cymbal m (definite singular cymbalen, indefinite plural cymbalar, definite plural cymbalane)

1. alternative spelling of symbal

Swedish

Noun

cymbal c

1. cymbal
2. dulcimer

Declension

English

Etymology

From French.

Noun

crotale (plural crotales)

1. (music, usually in the plural) A percussion instrument of archaic origin, resembling a metal castanet or cymbal.
   • 1970, James Blades, Percussion Instruments and Their History, 1992, page 167,

     In contrast to the cymbals of beaten metal, the British Museum collection includes several pairs of cast crotales. Strictly speaking, crotales are metal castanets, resembling cymbals. A pair of bronze crotales (from Thebes c. 200 BC) with large central boss and upturned rim, measure 2⁷/₁₆ inches in diameter, a thickness of approximately ¹/₈ inch, and a weight of 1³/₄ ozs.

   • 1983, Norman Del Mar, Anatomy of the Orchestra, page 420,

     Orchestrally, however, crotales and antique cymbals are virtually synonymous, the only difference being that strictly speaking crotales are thicker and less finely wrought and unlike antique cymbals are not held freely in the hands.

   • 2009, Michael Downes, Jonathan Harvey: Song Offerings and White As Jasmine, page 69,

     Tension gradually mounts through the instrumental section as the dynamics build to a climactic point at bar 69 (5.12): the first occasion on which we hear the double-bass player strike the crotale - tuned, of course, to g³, the note identified by Harvey as the ‘death note’.

Synonyms

• antique cymbal

Anagrams

• Lacorte, catlore, locater

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crotalum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (krótalon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.tal/

Noun

crotale m (plural crotales)

1. (in the plural) crotales
2. pit viper
3. (loosely) rattlesnake

Further reading

• “crotale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• récolta