different between viol vs gamba

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French viole, from Old French viol, from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin vitula (“stringed instrument”). Doublet of viola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?.?l/

Homophones: vial, vile

Noun

viol (plural viols)

1. (music) A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold
2. (nautical) A large rope used to manipulate the anchor

Synonyms

• viola d'amore
• viola da gamba
• gamba (informal)

Hypernyms

• stringed instrument

Hyponyms

• Baryton trios
• chest of viols
• division viol
• lyra viol
• pardessus de viole
• triple contrabass viol
• viola bastarde
• violone

Translations

References

• 2010. Stradivari. Stewart Pollens. Pg. 143.

Verb

viol (third-person singular simple present viols, present participle violing, simple past and past participle violed)

1. To play the viol.
   • 1914, Thomas Hardy, Seen by the Waits

     Through snowy woods and shady / We went to play a tune / To the lonely manor-lady / By the light of the Christmas moon. / We violed till, upward glancing / To where a mirror leaned, / It showed her airily dancing […]

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From Latin viol? (“to violate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vj?l/

Noun

viol m (plural viols)

1. a rape

Derived terms

Related terms

• violence
• violer

Further reading

• “viol” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Latin viol? (“to violate”).

Noun

viol m (plural viols)

1. (Jersey) rape

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French viol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi?ol/

Noun

viol n (plural violuri)

1. rape, violation

Declension

Synonyms

• batjocorire
• necinstire
• siluire
• violare

Related terms

• a viola
• a r?pi

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??u?l/

Noun

viol c

1. violet (the flower)

Anagrams

• oliv

English

Etymology 1

From viola da gamba, ultimately from Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of jamb and gam.

Noun

gamba (plural gambas)

1. (music) Abbreviation of viola da gamba.
2. (music) A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba.

Etymology 2

Latin gamba (“leg”); compare gamb, gambol.

Noun

gamba

1. (anatomy) The metacarpus or metatarsus of ruminants, etc.

Related terms

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??am.b?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /??am.ba/
• Hyphenation: gam?ba

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian gamba. Doublet of cama.

Noun

gamba f (plural gambes)

1. leg

   Synonym: cama

Etymology 2

From Late Latin gamb?rus, from camm?rus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kámmaros, “lobster”).

Noun

gamba f (plural gambes)

1. shrimp

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m.ba?/
• Hyphenation: gam?ba
• Rhymes: -?mba?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian viola da gamba, from gamba (“leg”).

Noun

gamba f (plural gamba's, diminutive gambaatje n)

1. viola da gamba

   Synonym: knieviool

Derived terms

• gambist

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Catalan gamba, Portuguese gamba or French gamba.

Noun

gamba f (plural gamba's, diminutive gambaatje n)

1. scampi, prawn

French

Etymology

Spanish gamba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.ba/

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. large prawn

Gooniyandi

Noun

gamba

1. water

2. wet season
3. year (because years are measured from one wet season to the next)

References

• William B. McGregor, A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi (1990, ?ISBN, page 260

Interlingua

Noun

gamba (plural gambas)

1. leg

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gamba m (genitive singular gamba, nominative plural gambaí)

1. lump, hunk, dollop

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "gamba" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “gamba” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “gamba” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??am.ba/

Noun

gamba f (plural gambe)

1. leg
2. leg (from knee to ankle), shank
3. leg (of furniture)
4. stroke (of a letter)

Derived terms

• gambetto
• in gamba

Descendants

• ? English: gam

Related terms

See also

• coscia

Further reading

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• camba

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??am.ba/, [??ämbä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??am.ba/, [???mb?]

Noun

gamba f (genitive gambae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, of animals) hock, shank
2. (Medieval Latin) (upper part of) leg, thigh

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: gamba
• English: gamb, gamba
• Old French: jambe, gambe
  • Middle French: jambe, gambe
    • ? Middle English: gambe
      • English: gamb
    • ? Middle English: jambe
      • English: jamb
    • French: jambe
  • Norman: gambe
  • Picard: gambe
  • Walloon: djambe
• Romanian: gamb?
• Sicilian: jamma
• Spanish: gamba

References

• gamba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gamba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gamba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 703/1

Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. leg

References

• AEDLL

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian gamba or Vulgar Latin *gambarus, from Latin cammarus, gammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (kámmaros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????b?/
• Hyphenation: gam?ba

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. shrimp (decapod crustacean)

   Synonym: camarão

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??amba/

Noun

gamba f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gamb?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??amba/, [??ãm.ba]

Etymology 1

From Italian gamba or Vulgar Latin *gambarus, from Latin gammarus, cammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (kámmaros).

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. (Spain) shrimp

   Synonym: camarón (Latin America)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Italian gamba, from Late Latin gamba.

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. (Argentina, colloquial) leg

   Synonym: pierna

2. (Chile, colloquial) 100 pesos

Derived terms

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

gamba (ma class, plural magamba)

1. bark (of a tree)
2. skin (of a scaly animal)
3. scale (of an animal)
4. armor
5. shell

See also

• ngozi