crotalo

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See also: crótalo

English

Etymology

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Noun

crotalo (plural crotalos or crotaloes)

  1. (music) A Turkish musical instrument, like the ancient cimbalom.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 crotalo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin crotalum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkrɔ.ta.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɔtalo
  • Hyphenation: crò‧ta‧lo

Noun

crotalo m (plural crotali)

  1. (snake) rattlesnake

Derived terms

Further reading

  • crotalo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

crotalō

  1. dative/ablative singular of crotalum