orchestraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin orchēstra, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra) (a derivative of ὀρχέομαι (orkhéomai, “to dance”)).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɔːkɪstɹə/, /ˈɔːkəstɹə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈoɹkɪstɹə/, /ˈoɹkəstɹə/
• (California) IPA: /ˈoɹkɪstɹə/, (California Vowel Shift) [ˈoɹkɛstɹə], /ˈoɹkəstɹə/
• ハイフネーション: or‧ches‧tra

名詞

orchestra (plural orchestras or (rare) orchestrae)

1. (music) A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.

   The orchestra plays music for the dancers to dance to in the 19th century-styled dance hall.

   • 1941 February, Voyageur, “The Railways of Greece”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:

     It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles.

   • 2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender):

     Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.

2. (Ancient Greece, theater) A semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic theatres.
3. The area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit, immediately in front of and below the stage, sometimes (also) used by other performers.

派生語

派生した語

アナグラム

• carthorse, horsecart, rheocrats

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɔrˈkʰeːs.tra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [orˈkɛs.tra]

名詞

orchēstra f (genitive orchēstrae); first declension

1. orchestra (area in front of a stage)

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “orchestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “orchestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “orchestra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “orchestra”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “orchestra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “orchestra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin