orchestra

Borrowed from Latin orchēstra, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra) (a derivative of ὀρχέομαι (orkhéomai, “to dance”)).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹkəstɹə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːkəstɹə/

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• Hyphenation: or‧ches‧tra

Orchestra

orchestra (plural orchestras or (rare) orchestrae)

1. (music) A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.
   • 1941 February, Voyageur, “The Railways of Greece”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:

     It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles.

   • 2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender):

     Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.

2. A semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic theatres.
3. The area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit, immediately in front of and below the stage, sometimes (also) used by other performers.

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• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.kɛs.tʁa/

orchestra

1. third-person singular past historic of orchestrer

• torcheras

From Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra).

• IPA^(key): /orˈkɛ.stra/
• Rhymes: -ɛstra
• Hyphenation: or‧chè‧stra

orchestra f (plural orchestre)

1. orchestra
2. band
3. orchestra pit

• orchestrale
• orchestrare

• → Turkish: orkestra

orchestra

1. inflection of orchestrare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /orˈkʰeːs.tra/, [ɔrˈkʰeːs̠t̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /orˈkes.tra/, [orˈkɛst̪rä]

orchēstra f (genitive orchēstrae); first declension

1. orchestra (area in front of a stage)

First-declension noun.

• “orchestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “orchestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orchestra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “orchestra”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “orchestra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “orchestra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• IPA^(key): /urˈkestra/

orchestra f (plural orchestre)

1. orchestra

Borrowed from French orchestrer.

a orchestra (third-person singular present orchestrează, past participle orchestrat) 1st conj.

1. to orchestrate

orchestra f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of orchestră