different between melody vs aria

English

Etymology

From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (mel?idí?, “singing, chanting”), from ????? (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ????? (aoid?, “song”), contracted form ??? (?id?).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mel.?.di/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?l.?.di/

Noun

melody (plural melodies)

1. tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase

Synonyms

• (sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase): tune

Derived terms

• melodic
• melodious
• melodium

Related terms

• melodrama

Coordinate terms

• harmony
• rhythm
• tone color

Translations

See also

• scale
• tune
• harmony
• music

Anagrams

• moyled

English

Etymology

From Italian aria, metathesis from Latin ?erem, accusative of ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r, “air”). Doublet of air.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.???/

Noun

aria (plural arias or arie)

1. (music) A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

Translations

Anagrams

• Aari, Arai, RIAA, Raia

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin ??rea or ??re, from ??r.

Noun

aria f

1. air
2. appearance

French

Etymology

From Italian aria

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.?ja/

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

1. (music) aria

Italian

Etymology

Metathesis from Latin ?era, Greek-type accusative of ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r, “air”). See also aere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.rja/
• Hyphenation: à?ria

Noun

aria f (plural arie)

1. air
2. look, appearance, countenance
3. (plural only) airs
4. wind (all senses)
5. (music) aria, song

Related terms

Descendants

Anagrams

• arai

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuarria as an equivalent of English say and speak in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ia/

Verb

aria (infinitive kwaria)

1. to speak

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• mwario 3, rwario 11

Related terms

• mwar?rie 3

See also

• kw?ra, kuuga

References

Further reading

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Polish

Etymology

From Italian aria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar?.ja/

Noun

aria f

1. (music) aria

Declension

Further reading

• aria in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romansch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r, “air”).

Noun

aria f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) air

Synonyms

• (Sutsilvan) leer
• (Puter, Vallader) ajer

Saaroa

Alternative forms

• ariia

Noun

aria

1. axe

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?ja/, [?a.?ja]

Etymology 1

From Italian aria.

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

1. (music) aria (a musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata)

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: arya

Etymology 2

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

1. female equivalent of ario (“Aryan”)

Adjective

aria

1. feminine singular of ario

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

aria c

1. an aria

Declension

Descendants

• ? Finnish: aaria