violin

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌvaɪəˈlɪn/, [ˌvaɪ̯ɪ̈ˈlɪn]

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

violin (plural violins)

1. (music) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.

2. (music) A violinist.

   The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.

• fiddle

• viol
• viola
• violoncello

• second fiddle

violin (third-person singular simple present violins, present participle violining, simple past and past participle violined)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin.

• bass viol
• cello
• double bass
• viola
• first violinist
• second violinist

• olivin

violin

1. third-person plural present subjunctive form of violar
2. third-person plural imperative form of violar

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.

• IPA^(key): /violiːn/, [vioˈliːˀn]

violin c (singular definite violinen, plural indefinite violiner)

1. violin

• “violin” in Den Danske Ordbog