orchestre
See also: orchestré
English
Etymology
French
Noun
orchestre (plural orchestres)
- Obsolete form of orchestra.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for orchestre in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Rochester, Schroeter, hectorers
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra). The word was feminine (like its etymon) until the 18th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔʁ.kɛstʁ/
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Noun
orchestre m (plural orchestres)
- orchestra, band
- stalls (of cinema or theatre)
Derived terms
- chef d'orchestre
- orchestral
- orchestrer
Descendants
Some may be directly borrowed from Latin.
- → Azerbaijani: orkestr
- → Czech: orchestr
- → Danish: orkester
- → Dutch: orkest
- Afrikaans: orkes
- → Indonesian: orkes
- → West Frisian: orkest
- → Georgian: ორკესტრი (orḳesṭri)
- → German: Orchester
- → Estonian: orkester
- → Norwegian: orkester
- → Persian: ارکستر (orkestr)
- → Macedonian: оркестар (orkestar)
- → Romanian: orchestră
- → Russian: оркестр (orkestr)
- → Kazakh: оркестр (orkestr)
- → Serbo-Croatian: orkestar / оркестар
- → Swedish: orkester
- → Finnish: orkesteri
- → Uzbek: orkestr
Further reading
- “orchestre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
orchestre f
- plural of orchestra
Anagrams
- scheretro, trescherò
Norman
Etymology
From Latin orchēstra, from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra), from ὀρχοῦμαι (orkhoûmai, “to dance”).
Noun
orchestre m (plural orchestres)
- (Jersey) orchestra
Romanian
Noun
orchestre f pl
- plural of orchestră