zampogna
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian zampogna. Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, tsampouna, and symphony.
Noun edit
zampogna (plural zampognas)
- A kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor[1], volume 3, London: Griffin, Bohn, published 1861, page 178:
- “When I go out to guard my sheep I play my zampogna, and I walk along and the sheep follow me. […] ”
- 1975, Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument, page 188:
- The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin symphōnia (possibly influenced, through folk etymology, by zampa (“paw, leg of an animal”) in Italian, as bagpipes are traditionally made of leather with the hair still on), from Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía). Cf. also Romanian cimpoi, cimpoaie, Portuguese sanfonha. Doublet of sinfonia.
Noun edit
zampogna f (plural zampogne)
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
zampogna
- inflection of zampognare: