concertina

From concert +‎ -ina.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑnsɚˈtinə/

concertina (plural concertinas)

1. A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.

   Hypernym: squeezebox

   Coordinate term: accordion

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

   • 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:

     Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.

2. Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
3. Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.^[2]
4. A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.

• → Finnish: concertina
• → Portuguese: concertina
• → Spanish: concertina

concertina (third-person singular simple present concertinas, present participle concertinaing, simple past and past participle concertinaed)

1. To become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina.

   The car concertinaed into the wall.

   • 2012, Amy Schoeman, Skeleton Coast, page ii:

     Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.

2. To be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds.
   • 2007, David W Cameron, 25 April 1915: The Day the Anzac Legend Was Born, page 36:

     This resulted in some fragmentation of the line as the boats in some cases closed to just 50 metres as they concertinaed in and out of sight of each other.

• accordion
• bandoneon

< English concertina

• IPA^(key): /ˈkonsertiːnɑ/, [ˈko̞ns̠e̞rˌt̪iːnɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iːnɑ

concertina

1. synonym of käsiharmonikka (“concertina”)

• Hyphenation: con‧cer‧ti‧na

concertina f (plural concertinas)

1. (music) concertina
2. (music, Portugal) button accordion, melodeon
3. (military) concertina (coiled barbed wire)

• concerto

Borrowed from English concertina. First attested in 1854.

• IPA^(key): /konθeɾˈtina/ [kõn̟.θeɾˈt̪i.na] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /konseɾˈtina/ [kõn.seɾˈt̪i.na] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: con‧cer‧ti‧na

concertina f (plural concertinas)

1. (music) concertina [from mid-19th c.]

• “concertina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “concertina”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN