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单词 ocarina
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ocarinan.

Brit. /ˌɒkəˈriːnə/, U.S. /ˌɑkəˈrinə/
Forms: 1800s– ocarina, 1900s– occarina, 1900s– ocharina.
Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian ocarina.
Etymology: < Italian ocarina, lit. ‘little goose’, with reference to its shape (1867 or earlier: see note below) < oca goose (a1292; < post-classical Latin auca goose (late 4th or early 5th cent.) < a diminutive of classical Latin avis bird: see aviary n.) + -ina -ina suffix, with -r- connective, after Italian regional (Emilia) ucarenna. Compare French ocarina (1877).The instrument in this form is said to have been invented in the 1850s by Giuseppe Luigi Donati (1836–1925) of Budrio, near Bologna.
A small keyless wind instrument in the form of a hollow egg-shaped (usually terracotta) body with finger-holes and a simple mouthpiece.
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1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 318/1 Ocarine (It.), a series of seven musical instruments made of terra cotta, pierced with small holes, invented by a company of performers calling themselves the Mountaineers of the Apennines.]
1877 T. Zach Brit. Patent 1020 A musical wind instrument..preferably formed of clay, and then baked or burnt; it is to be called the ‘Ocarina’.
1883 Good Words 24 132 Ducks and geese, which are to the loudest..Cochin China, what an ocarina is to a flageolet.
1921 J. N. Hall & C. B. Nordhoff Faery Lands South Seas 192 Takiero..was sitting near by playing, ‘Conquer the North’ on my ocharina.
1930 R. Paget Human Speech 8 The ocarina is, I believe, the only well-known wind instrument which operates on the principle of the ‘Helmholtz’ resonator.
1941 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 6 255 Close to the railway station..a few ceramics dating from the T'ang dynasty were also found. Of these objects I mention here only a pear-shaped occarina in grey ware.
1978 Early Music 6 451/1 It is not..the fact that it is made of clay that defines an ocarina.
1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 67 In these Clanning bookstores, the warm atmosphere makes people feel secure enough to talk to one another, whether it's about the occult, Oceanus, or the ocarina.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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