orchestre

See also: orchestré

English

Etymology

Noun

orchestre (plural orchestres)

Obsolete form of orchestra.

References

orchestre in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Rochester, Schroeter, hectorers

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra). The word was feminine (like its etymon) until the 18th century.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.kɛstʁ/
audio (file)

Noun

orchestre m (plural orchestres)

orchestra, band
stalls (of cinema or theatre)

Derived terms

Descendants

Some may be directly borrowed from Latin.

→ Azerbaijani: orkestr
→ Czech: orchestr
→ Danish: orkester
→ Dutch: orkest
- Afrikaans: orkes
- → Indonesian: orkes
- → West Frisian: orkest
→ Georgian: ორკესტრი (orḳesṭri)
→ German: Orchester
- → Estonian: orkester
→ Norwegian: orkester
→ Persian: ارکستر‎ (orkestr)
→ Macedonian: оркестар (orkestar)
→ Romanian: orchestră
→ Russian: оркестр (orkestr)
- → Kazakh: оркестр (orkestr)
→ Serbo-Croatian: orkestar / оркестар
→ Swedish: orkester
- → Finnish: orkesteri
→ Uzbek: orkestr

Further reading

“orchestre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

orchestre f

plural of orchestra

Anagrams

scheretro, trescherò

Norman

Etymology

From Latin orchēstra, from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra), from ὀρχοῦμαι (orkhoûmai, “to dance”).

Noun

orchestre m (plural orchestres)

(Jersey) orchestra

Romanian

Noun

orchestre f pl

plural of orchestră

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