clavicymbalum

English

Alternative forms

Noun

clavicymbalum (plural clavicymbalums)

  1. (music) An early keyboard instrument and ancestor of the harpsichord.

Latin

Etymology

From clāvis (“key”) +‎ cymbalum (“cymbal”).

Pronunciation

Noun

clāvicymbalum n (genitive clāvicymbalī); second declension

  1. (New Latin) harpsichord
    • 1657, Gaspar Schott, Mechanica hydraulica-pneumatica‎[1], page 432:
      Clavicymbalum automatum, omnis generis inſtrumentorum fidibus inſtructorum ſymphoniam exhibens.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative clāvicymbalum clāvicymbala
genitive clāvicymbalī clāvicymbalōrum
dative clāvicymbalō clāvicymbalīs
accusative clāvicymbalum clāvicymbala
ablative clāvicymbalō clāvicymbalīs
vocative clāvicymbalum clāvicymbala
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