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单词 viola
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violan.1

Brit. /ˈvʌɪələ/, /ˈvɪələ/, /vʌɪˈəʊlə/, U.S. /vaɪˈoʊlə/, /ˈvaɪələ/
Etymology: < Latin viola violet.
1. The violet. Also figurative. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > violet
apple leafa1200
violetc1330
violac1430
March violet1568
blue violet1656
sweet-scented violet1731
Canada violet1771
ladies' delight1809
dame's rocket1866
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) 300 Haile, fresshe Rose, planted in Iericho! Swettest viola, that neuer shal fade.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Lion & Mouse l. 1336 in Poems (1981) 54 The rosis reid,..The prymeros and the purpour viola.
2.
a. A large genus of herbaceous plants of the order Violaceæ, including violets and pansies; a plant or species of this genus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Violaceae > [noun]
viola1731
violals1846
violetworts1846
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. [as Latin generic name, and so in many later Dicts.]
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 345/2 The principle..has been separated by Boullay from some species of Viola.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 345/2 The capsule is like Viola.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 241/2 The violas are credited with powerful emetic and diuretic properties.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 23 July 4/2 The Alpine viola, in wondrous shades of mauve and violet and purple, stands an inch above the grass.
b. A hybrid garden-plant of this genus, distinguished from the pansy by a more delicate and uniform colouring of the flowers.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers
pansyc1450
heartsease1530
pansy flower1530
three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548
bulbous violet1578
love-in-idleness1578
sweet violet1578
pensea1592
cull-me-to-you1597
dog's tooth violet1597
dog violet1597
kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597
live in idleness1597
wild violet1597
yellow violet1597
love-and-idle1630
love-in-idle1664
trinity1699
fancy1712
wood violet1713
marsh violet1753
tree violet1753
kiss-me-at-the-gate1787
bird's-foot violet1802
Parma violet1812
Johnny-jump-up1827
stepmother1828
Neapolitan violet1830
garden gate1842
butterfly pea1848
kissa1852
pinkany-John1854
viola1871
kiss-me1877
pink-eyed John1877
face and hood1886
roosterhead1894
trout-lily1909
1871 Field II. 250/2 There is still a good early-flowering white Viola wanted.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 241/2 ‘Bedding violas,’ which differ from pansies in some slight technical details, have been raised by crossing V. lutea with V. calcarata.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 22 Nov. 1/3 Patches of pale mauve and purple show where colonies of violas and pansies are in bloom.
attributive.1871 Field II. 250/2 Another manifest want in the Viola tribe.1896 Daily News 22 June 3/5 Viola Show.—The first show of the National Viola Society was held on Saturday afternoon.
3. attributive. In chemical terms denoting substances derived from the violet or pansy.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > emetic > plant-based
stavesacrea1400
vomiting nut1575
Paraguay herb1717
violine1829
violina1836
lobelia1849
gillenin1856
viola1868
1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 1001 Violin, or Viola-Emetin, an emetic substance contained, according to Boullay, in all parts of the common violet.
1887 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. V. 490/2 Little, if anything, of value has been found in pansy; a glucoside, violaquercitrin, of probably no active properties, and a little salicylic acid.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

violan.2

Brit. /vɪˈəʊlə/, U.S. /viˈoʊlə/
Etymology: < Italian viola, Spanish viola, = French viole viol n.1
1.
a. A four-stringed musical instrument slightly larger than a violin; the alto or tenor violin.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > viola
tenor violin1654
alto viola1724
tenor1785
viola1786
alto1788
viola pomposa1864
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Viola, a tenor violin... The part it takes in concert is between that of the bass and the second violin.
1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xv. 265 The King of Spain wished to hear his daughter play on the viola, and an express was..sent to Lisbon for her instrument!
1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 14 The father..took the bass part on the viola, Wenzl played the first violin, I the second.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. xiii. 300 Colney brought his viola for a duet.
attributive.1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz Treat. Mod. Instrumentation 25 Viola players were always taken from among the refuse of violinists.
b. One who plays the viola.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > viola-player
tenorist1865
viola1894
violist1977
1894 Daily News 25 Apr. 5 Herr Ludwig Strauss, for many years viola in the quartet at the Monday Popular Concerts.
c. A variety of organ stop.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > string-tone stops
viol1688
violin1688
viol da gamba1826
gamba1829
viola da (also di) gamba1852
violon1852
aeolina1855
German gamba1860
aeoline1865
viola1876
violoncello1876
1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) ix. 65 Viola, an open stop of narrow measure, and a particularly soft and agreeable..tone.
2.
a. viola da (also di) gamba, = viol da gamba n. 1. Also viola da gambist, one who plays this, a viol da gambist.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > viol > viola da gamba
viol da gamba1597
gamba1598
degamboya1625
division-viol1656
viola da (also di) gamba1724
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > player of viola da gamba
gambist1789
viol da gambist1824
viola da gambist1977
1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Viola Da Gamba, is the same as Viola Basso, or Bass Viol.
1789 Ann. Reg. 1787 Chron. 210/1 The Viola di Gamba is not an instrument in general use; and will perhaps die with him; but his performance rendered it exquisitely charming.
1885 Daily News 17 Aug. 6/1 The early 18th century room contains the spinet, the viola da gamba, and the viola d'amore.
1977 Early Music 5 274 For viola da gambists there will be individual tuition.
b. = viol da gamba n. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > string-tone stops
viol1688
violin1688
viol da gamba1826
gamba1829
viola da (also di) gamba1852
violon1852
aeolina1855
German gamba1860
aeoline1865
viola1876
violoncello1876
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 108 Viola di gamba [Ger. Viola di Gamba], or simply gamba, is one of the finest registers.
1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) ix. 66 Viola di Gamba, or Gamba,..is of tin or metal, and the tone is soft, and somewhat cutting.
1889 E. J. Payne in Grove Dict. Music IV. 267 Under the incorrect title of Viola da Gamba it designates an organ stop of 8 ft. pitch, with open pipes, in the choir organ.
3. viola d'amore (or †d'amour): see viol n.1 2b.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > viol > viola d'amore
viol d'amore or d'amoura1684
viola d'amore (or d'amour)1724
violetta marina1786
1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Viola D'Amour, a kind of Treble Viol, strung with Wire, and so called because of its soft and sweet Tone.
1885 [see sense 2a].
1889 Grove's Dict. Music IV. 267.

Compounds

C1. With other distinctive postmodifiers:
viola bastarda n. = lyra viol n. at lyra n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > viol > lyra viol
lyra viol1652
lyre-viol1660
viola bastarda1724
1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Viola Bastardo, a Bastard Viol, which is a Bass Violin, strung and fretted like a Bass Viol.
1980 Early Music 8 250 (advt.) The viola bastarda style of playing was a highly developed idiom that involved frequent changes of register.
viola da braccio n. [lit. ‘of the arm’] any member of the violin family, as opposed to a viol da gamba; spec. an alto violin, a viola.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > any arm-held viol
viola da braccio1864
1864 Sandys & Forster Hist. Violin viii. 97 Vincentio Galilei, the father of the great astronomer, was an able writer on music, and in 1582 names the viola da braccio, which he says was called the lira not many years previously, the viola da gamba, and the violono, but not the violino.
1976 D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance 90/1 The name viola da braccio, which first occurs in 1543, was first used as a generic term like the older viola, but gradually came to refer to the members of the new violin family.
viola pomposa n. an 18th-cent. viola with an additional string.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > viola
tenor violin1654
alto viola1724
tenor1785
viola1786
alto1788
viola pomposa1864
1864 Sandys & Forster Hist. Violin xii. 164 John Sebastian Bach introduced an instrument he called the viola pomposa, in consequence..of the heavy style of violon~cello performers in his time.
1954 Grove's Dict. Music VIII. 810/1 Sanford Terry has shown that Bach's ‘viola pomposa’ was really the violoncello piccolo.
1976 Gramophone Apr. 1607/2 The viola pomposa a cross between cello and a big Tertis-style viola, with a splendidly rounded sound.
C2. Other compounds.
viola zither n. now rare a type of zither, played with a bow, having a viola-shaped body supporting a fretted fingerboard with three or four strings.
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1875 Times 23 Apr. 15/4 (advt.) Herr Curt Schulz wishes..to invite attention to the charming new instrument (Viola Zither) in which he also gives instruction.
1892 Lichfield Mercury 29 Apr. 8/4 Mrs Hartley gave two solos on the viola zither in an artistic manner.
1976 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 10 Dec. 8/7 There were many different types such as the piano zither, harp zither, guitar zither and the viola zither, which was played by means of a bow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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