† celestinetten.

Forms: 1700s celestinet, 1700s celestinette, 1700s coelestinette.

Origin: Perhaps a borrowing from German, combined with an English element. Etymons: German coelestina , -et suffix¹.

Etymology: Perhaps < German coelestina, used to denote various keyboard instruments involving strings (1742 or earlier; < classical Latin caelestis celest adj. + -ina -ine suffix⁴; perhaps so called as the instrument was thought to produce a heavenly sound) + -et suffix¹. Compare English celestina, denoting a similar bowed keyboard instrument (1771 or earlier).

Obsolete rare.

(See quot. 1774.)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > other stringed instruments > [noun] > hurdy-gurdy

wind-broach1653

humstrum1739

tetrachordon1740

hurdy-gurdy1749

vielle1768

celestinette1774

claviole1813

harmonichord1835

piano-violin1859

organistrum1867

humpenscrumpa1916

1774 H. Walpole Let. to W. Hamilton 19 June I heard a new instrument yesterday..It is a copulation of a harpsicord and a violin; one hand strikes the keys and the other draws the bow..The instrument is so small it stands on a table, and is called a Celestinette.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	celestinette
释义	† celestinetten. Forms: 1700s celestinet, 1700s celestinette, 1700s coelestinette. Origin: Perhaps a borrowing from German, combined with an English element. Etymons: German coelestina , -et suffix¹. Etymology: Perhaps < German coelestina, used to denote various keyboard instruments involving strings (1742 or earlier; < classical Latin caelestis celest adj. + -ina -ine suffix⁴; perhaps so called as the instrument was thought to produce a heavenly sound) + -et suffix¹. Compare English celestina, denoting a similar bowed keyboard instrument (1771 or earlier). Obsolete rare. (See quot. 1774.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > other stringed instruments > [noun] > hurdy-gurdy wind-broach1653 humstrum1739 tetrachordon1740 hurdy-gurdy1749 vielle1768 celestinette1774 claviole1813 harmonichord1835 piano-violin1859 organistrum1867 humpenscrumpa1916 1774 H. Walpole Let. to W. Hamilton 19 June I heard a new instrument yesterday..It is a copulation of a harpsicord and a violin; one hand strikes the keys and the other draws the bow..The instrument is so small it stands on a table, and is called a Celestinette. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1774
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