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instrument
English
Etymology
From Middle English instrument, from Old French instrument, from Latin ?nstr?mentum (“an implement, tool”), suffix -mentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nst??m?nt/, /??nst??m?nt/
- Hyphenation: in?stru?ment
Noun
instrument (plural instruments)
- A device used to produce music.
- A means or agency for achieving an effect.
- A measuring or displaying device.
- A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
- (law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
- (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
- 1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada
- The bold are but the instruments o' the wise.
- 1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:instrument
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
instrument (third-person singular simple present instruments, present participle instrumenting, simple past and past participle instrumented)
- (transitive) To apply measuring devices.
- (transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
- To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.
- a sonata instrumented for orchestra
Synonyms
- (to apply measuring devices): measure, supervise
- (to devise, conceive):
- (to perform on an instrument): play
- (to prepare for an instrument): arrange
Adjective
instrument (not comparable)
- (aviation) Flown by reference to an aircraft's cockpit-mounted flight instruments, rather than by using visual landmarks as a guide.
See also
- instrumental
Anagrams
- nutriments
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin ?nstr?mentum.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ins.t?u?ment/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ins.t?u?men/
Noun
instrument m (plural instruments)
- instrument (clarification of this definition is needed)
Derived terms
Related terms
- instrumental
- instrumentar
Further reading
- “instrument” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “instrument” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “instrument” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “instrument” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch instrument, from Old French instrument, from Latin ?nstr?mentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.stry?m?nt/
- Hyphenation: in?stru?ment
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
instrument n (plural instrumenten, diminutive instrumentje n)
- instrument
- (music) musical instrument
- Synonyms: muziekinstrument, speeltuig
Derived terms
French
Etymology
From Middle French instrument, from Old French instrument, from Latin ?nstr?mentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??s.t?y.m??/
Noun
instrument m (plural instruments)
- instrument (clarification of this definition is needed)
Derived terms
- instrument à cordes
- instrument à vent
- instrument de musique
Further reading
- “instrument” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Alternative forms
- jnstrument, ynstrument, instreument, enstrement
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French instrument, from Latin instr?mentum (“tool, device”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in?striu?m?nt/, /?instrum?nt/
Noun
instrument (plural instrumentes)
- A tool or device used for manipulation, especially for medical and scientific uses.
- A device used to produce music; a musical instrument.
- A piece of weaponry (such as a siege engine).
- A legal document, such as a contract, deed or will.
- The means by which one reaches an end or effect.
- A body part that performs a certain function; an organ.
- The human body as a whole
- One of the five senses.
Synonyms
- (music): organe; organum; simphane; symphonye
Related terms
- instrumental
Descendants
- English: instrument
References
- “instr??ment, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.
Middle French
Noun
instrument m (plural instrumens)
- (musical) instrument
- instrument (device, often mechanical)
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
instrument n (definite singular instrumentet, indefinite plural instrument or instrumenter, definite plural instrumenta or instrumentene)
- an instrument
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
instrument n (definite singular instrumentet, indefinite plural instrument, definite plural instrumenta)
- an instrument
Derived terms
Polish
Etymology
From Latin ?nstr?mentum ("an implement, tool").
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in?stru.m?nt/
Noun
instrument m inan
- instrument
Declension
Derived terms
- instrumentalny
Further reading
- instrument in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French instrument, from Latin instrumentum.
Noun
instrument n (plural instrumente)
- instrument
Declension
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
instrument n
- an instrument (of music, for measurement, method, tool, or financial contract), a device
Declension
Related terms
- blåsinstrument
- instrumentalist
- instrumentbräda
- instrumentell
- instrumentera
- instrumentmakare
- instrumentpanel
- stråkinstrument
- stränginstrument
Zoogocho Zapotec
Alternative forms
- stroment
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish instrumento.
Noun
instrument
- musical instrument
References
- Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 236
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libella
English
Etymology
Latin, diminutive of libra (“balance”). Doublet of level.
Noun
libella (plural libellas)
- A small balance.
- A level, or levelling instrument.
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: libellas, libellât
Verb
libella
- third-person singular past historic of libeller
Latin
Etymology
From l?bra +? -la.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /li??bel.la/, [li??b?l??ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /li?bel.la/, [li?b?l??]
Noun
l?bella f (genitive l?bellae); first declension
- An as (the tenth part of a denarius)
- level (builder's tool)
Usage notes
- Used to represent a minute portion of money.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- Vulgar Latin: *l?bellus m
- Catalan: llivell m (now dialectal)
- Italian: livello m
- Old French: livel, nyviel, nevel, nivel m (the probable source of all n- forms via dissimilation)
- French: niveau m
- ? Danish: niveau n
- ? Dutch: niveau n
- ? German: Niveau n
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: nivå n
- ? Romanian: nivel n
- ? Swedish: nivå c
- ? Albanian: nivel
- ? Asturian: nivel m
- ? Catalan: nivell m
- ? Cornish: nivel
- ? Middle English: level
- English: level
- ? Japanese: ??? (reberu)
- ? Korean: ?? (rebel)
- ? Japanese: ??? (reberu)
- English: level
- ? Esperanto: nivelo
- ? Galician: nivel m
- ? Ido: nivelo
- ? Portuguese: nível m
- ? Romanian: nivel m
- ? Romansch: nivel, nivo m
- ? Spanish: nivel m
- French: niveau m
- Romansch: livel m
- Piedmontese: livel m
- Sicilian: live??a f, live??u m
- Venetian: ?ive?o m
References
- libella in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- libella in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- libella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- libella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- libella in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- libella in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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