spinet

English
WOTD – 21 June 2009
A French-made spinet.

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian spinetta.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈspɪn.ɪt/, /spɪˈnɛt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈspɪn.ɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛt, -ɪnɪt

Noun

spinet (plural spinets)

  1. (music) A short, compact harpsichord or piano.
    • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎:
      He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
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See also

Etymology 2

Latin spīnētum. Doublet of spinney

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈspɪn.ɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪnɪt

Noun

spinet (plural spinets)

  1. (obsolete) A spinney.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spinet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Czech

Alternative forms
  • špinet

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈspɪnɛt]
  • Hyphenation: spi‧net

Noun

spinet m inan

  1. (music) spinet

Declension
Declension of spinet (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative spinet spinety
genitive spinetu spinetů
dative spinetu spinetům
accusative spinet spinety
vocative spinete spinety
locative spinetě, spinetu spinetech
instrumental spinetem spinety

See also

Further reading
  • spinet in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • spinet in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Romanian

Etymology

From spin +‎ -et.

Noun

spinet n (plural spineturi)

  1. thornbush

Declension
Declension of spinet
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) spinet spinetul (niște) spineturi spineturile
genitive/dative (unui) spinet spinetului (unor) spineturi spineturilor
vocative spinetule spineturilor
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