Viola definition
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Origin of viola
- Italian from Old Italian from Old Provençal a kind of early viol ultimately of imitative origin (probably back formation from violar to play the viol) (from viu sound imitative of a hurdy-gurdy or viol)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Italian from Old Italian from Old Provençal a kind of early viol ultimately of imitative origin (probably back formation from violar to play the viol) (from viu sound imitative of a hurdy-gurdy or viol)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Latin Greek ion (both Greek and Latin from a common unknown Mediterranean source)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Latin Greek ion (both Greek and Latin from a common unknown Mediterranean source)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Italian viola, from Old Provençal viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin *vitula (“stringed instrument").
From Wiktionary
- From Latin viola (“violet").
From Wiktionary
- From Latin viola (“violet")
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