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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

中提琴

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zhòngtíqín

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Viola/viˈoʊ.lə/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"她在乐队里拉中提琴。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A stringed musical instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than a violin and tuned a fifth lower.

    "She played the inner harmony part on her viola during the string quartet performance."
  2. 2

    Any of various plants of the genus Viola, including the pansy and violet, having colorful irregular flowers.

    "The garden was brightened by rows of cheerful yellow violas blooming in the spring."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old Provençal and Italian word 'viola', ultimately tracing back through Latin and classical roots to the Greek 'vioulation'. Historically adapted in the 16th century to describe the stringed musical instrument slightly larger and pitched lower than the violin.

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