different between melodrama vs cubism

English

Etymology

From French mélodrame, the second element refashioned by analogy with drama; ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (mélos, “limb”, “member”, “song”, “tune”, “melody”) + ????? (drâma, “deed”, “theatrical act”). Compare melodrame. Cognate to German Melodram and Spanish melodrama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l??d???m?/

Noun

melodrama (countable and uncountable, plural melodramas or melodramata)

1. (archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
2. (countable) A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks

   the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
3. (uncountable, figuratively, colloquial) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /m?.lo?d?a.m?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /m?.lu?d?a.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /me.lo?d?a.ma/

Noun

melodrama m (plural melodrames)

1. melodrama (a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations)
2. melodrama (any situation or action which is blown out of proportion)

Derived terms

• melodramàtic

Related terms

• drama

Further reading

• “melodrama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “melodrama” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “melodrama” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “melodrama” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (mélos)

Noun

melodrama n (definite singular melodramaet, indefinite plural melodrama or melodramaer, definite singular melodramaene)

1. a melodrama

References

• “melodrama” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (mélos)

Noun

melodrama n (definite singular melodramaet, indefinite plural melodrama, definite plural melodramaa)

1. a melodrama

References

• “melodrama” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

melodrama m (plural melodramas)

1. melodrama (romantic drama)
2. (figuratively) melodrama (any situation or action which is blown out of proportion)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mêlodra?ma/
• Hyphenation: me?lo?dra?ma

Noun

m?lodr?ma f (Cyrillic spelling ???????????)

1. melodrama

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (mélos) and Ancient Greek ????? (drâma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /melo?d?ama/, [me.lo?ð??a.ma]
• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

melodrama m (plural melodramas)

1. melodrama

Derived terms

• melodramático

Related terms

• drama

Further reading

• “melodrama” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• Cubism

Etymology

From French cubisme. One story is that, in 1908, as a new canvas by Braque was being carried past, someone said, “Encore des cubes! assez de cubisme!”. The quotations below ascribe the coinage to Matisse. Sometimes attributed to French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who popularized the term.

See also the word cube (from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek ????? (kúbos)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kju?.b?z.?m/

Noun

cubism (countable and uncountable, plural cubisms)

1. (often capitalized) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes. [from 1900s]
   • 2003, The New Yorker, 3 March,

   • 2005, The New Yorker, 29 Aug, p. 78,

Related terms

• cubist
• cubistic
• cubistically

Translations

Further reading

• cubism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cubisme.

Noun

cubism n (uncountable)

1. cubism

Declension