instrumento
Catalan edit
Verb edit
instrumento
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Latin īnstrūmentum (“an implement, tool”), from īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”) + -mentum. Compare Italian strumento, Russian инструме́нт (instrumént), German Instrument, Polish instrument.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
instrumento (accusative singular instrumenton, plural instrumentoj, accusative plural instrumentojn)
- musical instrument (device used to produce or play music)
- instrument (tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement)
Derived terms edit
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Latin īnstrūmentum.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ins‧tru‧men‧to
Noun edit
instrumento m (plural instrumentos)
- instrument (a tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement)
- instrument (a device used to produce music)
- (figurative) instrument (a person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal)
Further reading edit
- “instrumento” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Ido edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Esperanto instrumento, English instrument, French instrument, German Instrument, Italian instrumento, Russian инструме́нт (instrumént), Spanish instrumento.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
instrumento (plural instrumenti)
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
instrumento (plural instrumentos)
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
instrumento m (plural instrumenti)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
īnstrūmentō n
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin īnstrūmentum.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ẽtu
- Hyphenation: ins‧tru‧men‧to
Noun edit
instrumento m (plural instrumentos)
- tool (mechanical device intended to make a task easier)
- Synonym: ferramenta
- musical instrument (device used to produce music)
- Synonym: instrumento musical
Further reading edit
- “instrumento” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “instrumento” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
instrumento
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /instɾuˈmento/ [ĩns.t̪ɾuˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: ins‧tru‧men‧to
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin īnstrūmentum.
Noun edit
instrumento m (plural instrumentos)
- instrument (device)
- (musical) instrument
- tool, means
- (law) instrument
- (vulgar) tool (a term for the penis)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Zoogocho Zapotec: instrument
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
instrumento
Further reading edit
- “instrumento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish instrumento.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
instrumento (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜈ᜔ᜐ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜇᜓᜋᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
- instrument; tool
- Synonyms: kagamitan, kasangkapan
- musical instrument
- Synonym: panugtog