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timpano

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See also: Timpano and tímpano

English

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Etymology

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From Italian timpano.

Noun

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timpano (plural timpanos)

  1. (uncommon) A timbale (food).
    • 2012 August 6, Anne L. Bower, Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film, Routledge, →ISBN, page 47:
      One can see why Secundo protests making the timpano. The dish is time consuming and demands an involved preparation. It is reserved for special occasions, for it serves anywhere from ten to sixteen people. [] The food stylist for the film, Deborah Disabatino, said she felt like an architect when constructing a timpano, and []
    • 2019 September 10, Anna Hezel, The Editors Of Taste, Lasagna: A Baked Pasta Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 26:
      Later in the book, we'll dig deeper into the world of baked pastas like elegant lasagna timpanos and new interpretations like crunchy life-changing deep-fried bricks of lasagna []

Noun

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timpano (plural timpani)

  1. singular of timpani
    • 1972, Kenneth A. Mueller, Teaching Total Percussion, Parker Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 71:
      Move only the arms when playing from one timpano to the other.
    • 1984, Percussion Anthology: A Compendium of Percussion Articles from the Instrumentalist, Instrumentalist Company, page 511:
      In most cases, when one timpano is used, numerous gliss effects are required (or no special pedaling at all).
    • 1990, Kent Kennan, Donald Grantham, The Technique of Orchestration, Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 232:
      As in string writing, the indication is a line between the notes (both of which must be within the range of one timpano, of course).
    • 2013, Ertuğrul Sevsay, The Cambridge Guide to Orchestration, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
      Usually two or more timpani are used together, except for a few rare cases in pre-Classical music where only one timpano is required.

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [timˈpano]
  • Rhymes: -ano
  • Hyphenation: tim‧pa‧no

Noun

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timpano (accusative singular timpanon, plural timpanoj, accusative plural timpanojn)

  1. (anatomy) eardrum
  2. (architecture) tympanum

Derived terms

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin tympanum.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtim.pa.no/
  • Rhymes: -impano
  • Hyphenation: tìm‧pa‧no

Noun

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timpano m (plural timpani)

  1. (anatomy) eardrum, tympanum
  2. drum
  3. (architecture) gable, tympanum
  4. timbale
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Further reading

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  • timpano in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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