plectrum

  • 121Outline of guitars — The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to guitars: Guitar – plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in… …

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  • 122Sei -say- — Album par misono Sortie 16 juillet 2008 Enregistrement 2007 2008 …

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  • 123Plektron — Plẹk|tron auch: Plẹkt|ron 〈n.; s, Plẹk|tren; Mus.〉 = Plektrum * * * Plẹk|t|ron, Plẹk|t|rum, das; s, …tren u. …tra [lat. plectrum < griech. plẽktron = Werkzeug zum Schlagen, zu: ple̅̓ssein = schlagen u. tron = Suffix zur Bez. eines… …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 124Plektrum — Plẹk|trum auch: Plẹkt|rum 〈n.; s, Plẹk|tren; Mus.〉 Stäbchen od. Plättchen aus Holz, Metall, Schildpatt od. Elfenbein, mit dem die Saiten von Zupfinstrumenten angerissen werden; oV Plektron [<grch. plektron; zu plessein „schlagen“] * * *… …

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  • 125PECTEN — I. PECTEN enis, apud Cyrillum in Glossario, πλὴκτρον, Latine quoque plectrum est: a significatione alterius inflexione hac distinctum. Quam tamen Auctores non observant. Virgilius de Orpheo, l. 6. Aen. v. 645. Non non Threicius longa cum veste… …

    Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • 126hearpenægel — m ( nægles/ næglas) A little stick with which the player struck the chords of a stringed instrument, a quill, plectrum; a lyre or lute; also a lyric poem; A helm, rudder [plectrum] …

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  • 127apoplexy — [14] The Greek verb apopléssein meant ‘incapacitate by means of a stroke’. It was formed from the prefix apo ‘away, off’ (here used as an intensive) and the verb pléssein ‘hit’ (source of English plectrum [17] and related to English complain,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 128plague — [14] Etymologically, plague means a ‘blow’ or ‘stroke’. It goes back to the same prehistoric base, *plag ‘hit’, as produced Latin plangere ‘beat’ (source of English complain, plaintiff [14], plaintive [14], and plangent [19] – which originally… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins