different between plectrum vs fingerpick

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

English

Etymology

finger +? pick

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??.??(?)?p?k/

Noun

fingerpick (plural fingerpicks)

1. A type of plectrum that clips on to, or wraps around the end of the fingers and thumb.

Verb

fingerpick (third-person singular simple present fingerpicks, present participle fingerpicking, simple past and past participle fingerpicked)

1. (music) To pluck of the individual strings of a stringed instrument with the fingers