electronica

See also: electrónica and electrònica

English

Etymology

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Noun

electronica (uncountable)

1. (music) Any of a wide range of electronic music genres.
   • 2012, Michael Campbell, Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On:

     By mid-decade, electronica began to chart, in the music of acts such as Bjork, Chemical Brothers, and Moby, and the resources of electronica were integrated into other non-pop styles, such as the industrial music of Trent Reznor […]

   • 2014, Timothy D. Taylor, Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture:

     New Age music […] like all musics, has its margins, and these are blurred with ambient, techno, and other electronica.

2. Electronic items in general.
3. (Internet) The data trail of an individual on the public internet. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• indietronica
• laptronica
• rocktronica

Translations

any of a wide range of electronic music genres

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子樂／电子乐 (diànzǐyuè)

• Finnish: elektroninen musiikki
• French: électronica (fr) f
• Georgian: ელექტრონული მუსიკა (elekṭronuli musiḳa), ელექტრონიკა (elekṭroniḳa)
• Japanese: エレクトロニカ (erekutoronika)
• Korean: 일렉트로니카 (illekteuronika)
• Russian: электро́нная му́зыка f (elektrónnaja múzyka)

electronic items in general

• Finnish: elektroniikka (fi)
• Georgian: ელექტრონიკა (elekṭroniḳa)
• Russian: электро́ника (ru) f (elektrónika)

data trail of an individual on the public internet

• Finnish: verkkojalanjälki

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Translations to be checked

• Ido: ^{(please verify)} elektronikajo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeː.lɛkˈtroː.ni.kaː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: e‧lec‧tro‧ni‧ca

Noun

electronica f (uncountable)

1. Superseded spelling of elektronica.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eː.lekˈtroː.ni.ka/, [eːɫ̪ɛkˈt̪roːnɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.lekˈtro.ni.ka/, [elekˈt̪rɔːnikä]

Noun

ēlectrōnica f (genitive ēlectrōnicae); first declension

1. (New Latin) electronics

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēlectrōnica	ēlectrōnicae
Genitive	ēlectrōnicae	ēlectrōnicārum
Dative	ēlectrōnicae	ēlectrōnicīs
Accusative	ēlectrōnicam	ēlectrōnicās
Ablative	ēlectrōnicā	ēlectrōnicīs
Vocative	ēlectrōnica	ēlectrōnicae

Related terms

• ēlectrōnicus