different between mandolin vs plectrum

English

Etymology

From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a large stringed instrument.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mænd?l?n/

Noun

mandolin (plural mandolins)

1. (music) a stringed instrument and a member of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back
2. a kitchen tool used for slicing vegetables (usually spelled mandoline)
3. (military) an RAF World War II code name for patrols to attack enemy railway transport and other ground targets

Derived terms

Related terms

• mandola, manjo, mandolin-banjo, banjo-mandolin, banjolin

Translations

Further reading

• Mandolin (musical instrument) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mandoline (kitchen tool) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mandolin on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man.du.li?n/, [m?n.d?.?li?n]

Noun

mandolin m (definite singular mandolinen, indefinite plural mandoliner, definite plural mandolinene)

1. (music) mandolin; eight stringed instrument in the lute family

   Han kan spille tusenvis av melodier på mandolinen!

   He can play thousands of melodies on his mandolin!

   • 2001, Kaizers Orchestra, Bøn fra helvete

     Hey, Tony, legg nå ner din mandolin, for det er din tur til å spinne magasinet!

     Hey, Tony, put down your mandolin, because it's your turn to spin the magazine! [sic, a revolver does not have a magazine]

   • 1998, Merete Lien, Vinterlys

     Et par briller og en glatt gullring, en mandolin.

     A pair of glasses and a smooth, golden ring, a mandolin.

2. (cooking) Clipping of mandolinjern (“mandoline”); cooking utensil used for slicing and cutting juliennes

   Man trenger ikke alltid spesielle verktøy når man lager mat, men en mandolin kan komme til bruk hvis man eventuelt må skjære tynne skiver.

   You don't always need special utensils when cooking food, but a mandoline could potentially come in handy if you need to cut thin slices.

   • 2014, Elisabeth Dalseg, Slik velger du mandolin, DinSide

     Du kan være så flink med kniven du bare vil. Men selv profesjonelle kokker tyr til mandolinen når de skal skjære syltynne skiver av matvarer.

     You can be as good with a knife as you want. But even profesional cooks resort to the mandoline when they need to cut thin slices of food.

References

“mandolin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
“mandolin” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man.du.li?n/, [m?n.d?.?li?n]

Noun

mandolin m (definite singular mandolinen, indefinite plural mandolinar, definite plural mandolinane)

1. (music) mandolin; eight stringed instrument in the lute family

   Mandolinen er eit vellydande instrument med en lang historie.

   The mandolin is a euphonic instrument with a long history.

   • 2012, Atle Hansen, Syng meg heim!, Wigestrand

     [...] så var spetakkelet laus. Trekkspel og gitar, tamburinar og mandolin.

     [...] and then the racket started. Accordion and guitar, tambourines and mandolin.

2. (cooking) Clipping of mandolinjern (“mandoline”); cooking utensil used for slicing and cutting juliennes

   Eit verktøy som alle treng: mandolinen.

   A utensil everyone needs: the mandoline.

References

“mandolin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Turkish

Etymology

From French mandoline.

Noun

mandolin (definite accusative mandolini, plural mandolinler)

1. mandolin

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• plectron

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?ctrum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (plêktron, “anything to strike with, an instrument for striking the lyre, a spear point”), from ???????? (pl?ssein, “to strike, to smite, to sting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?k.t??m/

Noun

plectrum (plural plectrums or plectra)

1. (music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
2. (anatomy, zoology) A projection of bone or other stiff tissue, such as the ridges in some insects' stridulatory organs.

Synonyms

• (music): guitar pick; pick; plectre (obsolete)

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?ctrum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (plêktron).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?k.tr?m/
• Hyphenation: plec?trum

Noun

plectrum n (plural plectrums or plectra, diminutive plectrumpje n)

1. plectrum, pick (object for plucking certain string instruments)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (plêktron), from ?????? (pl?ss?, “to strike, sting”), also analyzable as pl?ct? +? -trum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ple?k.trum/, [?p??e?kt?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?plek.trum/, [?pl?kt??um]

Noun

pl?ctrum n (genitive pl?ctr?); second declension

1. a plectrum; tool for playing a stringed instrument
2. a lyre, lute

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• ? English: plectrum
• ? French: plectre
• ? Italian: plettro
• ? Portuguese: plectro
• ? Spanish: plectro

Further reading

• plectrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plectrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plectrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• plectrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• plectrum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plectrum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin