oboe
English
Etymology
An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈoʊboʊ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊbəʊ
Noun
oboe (plural oboes)
- A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.
Derived terms
- baroque oboe
- bass oboe
- contrabass oboe
- oboe da caccia, oboe di caccia
- oboe d’amore
- oboist
- piccolo oboe
Translations
wind instrument
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See also
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈoboe/, [ˈo̞bo̞e̞]
- Rhymes: -oboe
- Syllabification(key): o‧bo‧e
Declension
| Inflection of oboe (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | oboe | oboet | ||
| genitive | oboen | oboeiden oboeitten | ||
| partitive | oboeta | oboeita | ||
| illative | oboeen | oboeihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | oboe | oboet | ||
| accusative | nom. | oboe | oboet | |
| gen. | oboen | |||
| genitive | oboen | oboeiden oboeitten | ||
| partitive | oboeta | oboeita | ||
| inessive | oboessa | oboeissa | ||
| elative | oboesta | oboeista | ||
| illative | oboeen | oboeihin | ||
| adessive | oboella | oboeilla | ||
| ablative | oboelta | oboeilta | ||
| allative | oboelle | oboeille | ||
| essive | oboena | oboeina | ||
| translative | oboeksi | oboeiksi | ||
| instructive | — | oboein | ||
| abessive | oboetta | oboeitta | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Italian
Alternative forms
- oboè (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɔ.bo.e/
- Rhymes: -ɔboe
- Hyphenation: ò‧bo‧e
Further reading
- oboe in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oˈboe/ [oˈβ̞o.e]
- Rhymes: -oe
- Syllabification: o‧bo‧e
References
- “oboe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Further reading
- “oboe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Declension
| Declension of oboe | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | oboe | oboen | oboer | oboerna |
| Genitive | oboes | oboens | oboers | oboernas |
Related terms
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