单词 | rotta |
释义 | rottan. historical. = rote n.2 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > fiddle > early fiddles crowda1310 ribiblec1330 rotec1330 ribibec1415 rebec1755 crwth1837 rotta1864 1864 W. Sandys & S. A. Forster Hist. Violin ii. 24 Although the rotta..was thus derived..from the psalterion, yet it did not supersede that instrument. 1882 E. H. Allen Ancestry of Violin ii. 22 The only difference between the earliest crwths (or chrottas) and the latest rotes (or rottas) seems to be..the addition of the bow and fingerboard. 1942 E. Blom Mus. in Eng. i. 12 A miniature in an eighth-century codex in the British Museum..shows King David playing on a rotta (a generic link between the lyre and the harp). 1964 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments (1966) 102/2 In the 8th c., Cuthbert had mentioned the cithara that ‘we’ call rotta. 1990 C. Page in R. Crocker & D. Hiley Early Middle Ages to 1300 iv. x. 466 The image of Notker entering his classroom at St Gall weighed down with codices, wax-tablets, and a rotta may seem a fanciful one. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1864 |
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