different between tintinnabulate vs tintinnabulation

English

Etymology

Latin tintinnabulatus ("furnished with a bell or bells"), from tintinnabulum ("a bell"). Akin to tinnitus.

Verb

tintinnabulate (third-person singular simple present tintinnabulates, present participle tintinnabulating, simple past and past participle tintinnabulated)

1. To ring, tinkle, toll, or otherwise sound like bells.

Related terms

• tintinnabulation
• tintinnabulum

Translations

English

Etymology

Noun of action from tintinnabulate, from Latin tintinnabulum (“a bell”), from tintin?, a reduplicated form of tinni? (“ring, jingle”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?nt?n?næbj??le??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?nt?n?næbju??le??n/

Noun

tintinnabulation (countable and uncountable, plural tintinnabulations)

1. A tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 20

     Across the darkling meadows, from the heights of Hare, the tintinnabulation sounded mournfully, penetrating the curl-wreathed tympanums of Lady Parvula de Panzoust.

2. The ringing of bells.
   • 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells

     Keeping time, time, time,

     In a sort of Runic rhyme,

     To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

     From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

     Bells, bells, bells —

     From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Related terms

• tintinnabulate
• tintinnabulum

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