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tympani

English

Noun

tympani pl (plural only)

  1. Alternative spelling of timpani.

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?tym.pa.ni?/, [?t??mpäni?]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?tim.pa.ni/, [?t?imp?ni]

Noun

tympan? n

  1. genitive singular of tympanum

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tympany

English

Etymology

Coined based on Ancient Greek ???????? (túmpanon).

Pronunciation

  • Homophones: timpani, tympani

Noun

tympany (countable and uncountable, plural tympanies)

  1. The sound made by beating a drum.
  2. (medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
  3. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
    • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
      Thine's a tympany of sense.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)

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