harpsichord
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 羽管键琴
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 借自 ←法语 harpechord “harp string”
- 借自 ←意大利语 arpicordo
词源说明
Early 1600s, borrowed from French harpechord (“harp string”), from New Latin harpichordium, from harpa (“harp”) + chorda (“string”). Influenced by and possibly also borrowed from Italian arpicordo, producing variant spellings. The unetymological -s-, which predominates by the 1660s, is of unclear origin.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- (music) A stringed musical instrument with a keyboard, the mechanical precursor to the fortepiano, in which each key causes a plectrum to pluck a corresponding tuned string, producing a bright, sharp tone similar to that of a harp.