different between orchestra vs sinfonietta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orch?stra, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ???????? (orkh?stra) (a derivative of ???????? (orkhéomai, “to dance”)).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k?st??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k?st??/
• Hyphenation: or?ches?tra

Noun

orchestra (plural orchestras or (rare) orchestrae)

1. (music) A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.
2. A semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic theatres.
3. The area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit, immediately in front of and below the stage, sometimes (also) used by other performers.

Usage notes

• In British English, "The orchestra are tuning up" is often used, implying the individual members. In the US, one would almost always hear "The orchestra is tuning up", implying a collective.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• carthorse, horsecart, rheocrats

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k?s.t?a/

Verb

orchestra

1. third-person singular past historic of orchestrer

Anagrams

• torcheras

Italian

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ???????? (orkh?stra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /or?k?s.tra/

Noun

orchestra f (plural orchestre)

1. orchestra
2. band
3. orchestra pit

Descendants

• ? Turkish: orkestra

Derived terms

• orchestrale
• orchestrare

Etymology 2

Verb

orchestra

1. inflection of orchestrare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• orchestra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (orkh?stra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /or?k?e?s.tra/, [?r?k?e?s?t??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /or?kes.tra/, [?r?k?st???]

Noun

orch?stra f (genitive orch?strae); first declension

1. orchestra (area in front of a stage)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative.

Descendants

• English: orchestra
• French: orchestre
• Italian: orchestra
• Portuguese: orquestra
• Spanish: orquestra

References

• orchestra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• orchestra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orchestra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• orchestra in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• orchestra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orchestra in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ur?kestra/

Noun

orchestra f (plural orchestre)

1. orchestra

Romanian

Etymology 1

From French orchestrer.

Verb

a orchestra (third-person singular present orchestreaz?, past participle orchestrat) 1st conj.

1. to orchestrate

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Noun

orchestra f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of orchestr?

English

Etymology

Either:

• from the Italian sinfonietta;
• formed on the Italian roots sinfonia (“symphony”) + -etta (feminine diminutive suffix), either in English or in German (as Sinfonietta) and adopted thence; or,
• an alteration of the French symphoniette to resemble an Italian construction of the form sinfonia + -etta.

Compare the French–Italian hybrid symphonietta.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?nf?ny??t?, IPA^(key): /s?nf???nj?t?/

or as in Italian

Noun

sinfonietta (plural sinfoniettas or sinfoniette)

1. (music) A small-scale symphony (either in length or size of orchestra needed).
2. (music) A small orchestra.

Translations

References

• “?sinfonietta” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
  ??(sinfoni??tta, s?nf???nj?t?) [It., dim. of prec.]
• Grove Music Online, Sinfonietta
  ??The word is not genuine Italian and has been little used by Italian composers. It was apparently coined by Joachim Raff, whose Sinfonietta in F for ten wind instruments, op.188, was published in 1874.
• The Oxford Companion to Music, sinfonietta
  ??The first known work to be so designated was Rimsky-Korsakov’s Symphoniette sur des thèmes russes, composed c. 1880 and published in 1887. Since the early 20th century the Italian form ‘sinfonietta’ has been preferred (the word is not genuinely Italian, however).

Anagrams

• festination, infestation

Finnish

Etymology

From Italian sinfonietta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sinfoniet??/, [?s?info?ni?e?t???]
• Rhymes: -et??
• Syllabification: sin?fo?ni?et?ta

Noun

sinfonietta

1. (music) sinfonietta

Declension

Italian

Etymology

sinfonia +? -etta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sin.fo?nj?t.ta/

Noun

sinfonietta f (plural sinfoniette)

1. Diminutive of sinfonia
2. sinfonia (both senses)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?nf?n?²?ta/

Noun

sinfonietta c

1. sinfonietta

Declension

References

• sinfonietta in Svensk ordbok (SO)