oboe
English
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Etymology
[edit]An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oboe (plural oboes)
- (music) A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.
- 1990, Francis Bebey, African music: a people's art, page 64:
- Whistles, mirlitons, flutes, trumpets or horns, clarinets, and oboes are all played in one or more parts of the continent.
- 2007 June 4, Alastair Macaulay, “Wake Up, Princess, the Movies Are Calling”, in The New York Times[1]:
- This does become monstrously antimusical in one scene: when Tchaikovsky’s music, softly depicting the sleeping palace (my favorite passage of this composer’s entire oeuvre, with its beautifully muffled oboe melody suggesting how beauty ripens in sleep like a chrysalis), is turned into an epic battle for the poor passive Prince, conducted between the wicked Carabosse, with her ghoulish minions, and the Lilac Fairy, with her elves.
- 2015 August 1, Vanessa Thorpe, “Musicians launch campaign to save the bassoon as shortage threatens orchestra”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]wind instrument
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See also
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[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oboe
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of oboe (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | oboe | oboet | |
| genitive | oboen | oboeiden oboeitten | |
| partitive | oboeta | oboeita | |
| illative | oboeen | oboeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | oboe | oboet | |
| accusative | nom. | oboe | oboet |
| gen. | oboen | ||
| genitive | oboen | oboeiden oboeitten | |
| partitive | oboeta | oboeita | |
| inessive | oboessa | oboeissa | |
| elative | oboesta | oboeista | |
| illative | oboeen | oboeihin | |
| adessive | oboella | oboeilla | |
| ablative | oboelta | oboeilta | |
| allative | oboelle | oboeille | |
| essive | oboena | oboeina | |
| translative | oboeksi | oboeiksi | |
| abessive | oboetta | oboeitta | |
| instructive | — | oboein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
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Further reading
[edit]- “oboe”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Italian
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French hautbois, transcribed phonetically.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oboe m (plural oboi)
- (music) oboe
- (metonymically) oboist
Further reading
[edit]- oboe in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Japanese
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[edit]oboe
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French hautbois.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oboe m (plural oboes)
References
[edit]- ^ “oboe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Further reading
[edit]- “oboe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]IPA(key): /ʊˈboː/, IPA(key): /ˈoːbʊ.ə/, IPA(key): /ˈoːbʊˌɛ/
Noun
[edit]oboe c
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | oboe | oboes |
| definite | oboen | oboens | |
| plural | indefinite | oboer | oboers |
| definite | oboerna | oboernas |
Related terms
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- English terms derived from Italian
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- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/əʊbəʊ
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Woodwind instruments
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- Finnish terms borrowed from Italian
- Finnish terms derived from Italian
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- Rhymes:Finnish/oboe
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- Finnish lemmas
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- fi:Musical instruments
- Finnish valtio-type nominals
- Italian terms derived from French
- Italian 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔboe
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- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
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- it:Musical instruments
- Italian metonyms
- it:Woodwind instruments
- Japanese non-lemma forms
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- Spanish terms borrowed from French
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- Spanish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/oe
- Rhymes:Spanish/oe/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Musical instruments
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- sv:Musical instruments