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Violoncello

//ˌvaɪələnˈtʃɛləʊ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of cello.

    "A tentative violoncello is playing, invisible and plaintive, then stops with an asthmatic scrape of catgut."

  2. 2
    a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing wordnet

Etymology

A borrowing of Italian violoncello (“little violone”), from violone (“an early form of the double bass”) + -cello (“-elle”, forming diminutives), violone itself being derived from viola + -one (“-oon”, forming augmentatives).

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