leitmotiv

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leitmotiv (plural leitmotivs or leitmotive)

1. Alternative form of leitmotif.
   • 1925, Cyril Winn, “The Music”, in The Master-Singers of Wagner (The Musical Pilgrim), London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, →OCLC, page 10:

     In the domain of purely instrumental music, to which leitmotive are perfectly adapted in the realization of ‘programme music’, the earliest examples are to be found in the Symphonie Fantastique of Berlioz, where what he terms idée fixe is used in the manner of a ‘leitmotiv’.

   • 1985, Christopher Shorley, “Theory, practice and beyond”, in Queneau’s Fiction: An Introductory Study, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Form), pages 66–67:

     A further application of the rhymes and repetitions is to be seen in Queneau’s use of leitmotive, whereby his texts are pervaded by objects which, again, serve to indicate the deliberate organisation underlying the surface of the narrative.

   • 1989, Iain MacRobert, “The New Black-led Churches in Britain”, in Paul Badham, editor, Religion, State, and Society in Modern Britain (Texts and Studies in Religion; 43), Lewiston, N.Y.; […]: Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, pages 126–127:

     While Pentecostalism differs both in doctrine and pneumatology from the Afro-Christian sects, its indigenisation in Jamaica has meant that the leitmotive of black folk belief reinvigorated the movement, which had been largely "de-Africanised" by white Pentecostals, and thus restored many of the perceptions and themes which had been present at the birth of the Pentecostalism in Los Angeles.

Borrowed from German Leitmotiv.

• IPA^(key): /lɛt.mɔ.tiv/

leitmotiv m (plural leitmotivs)

1. leitmotif

• “leitmotiv”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from German Leitmotiv.

leitmotiv m (invariable)

1. leitmotif (musical or otherwise)

leitmotiv m (plural leitmotiven or leitmotiv or leitmotivs or leitmotives)

1. (music) leitmotif (a recurring melodic theme in an opera)
2. (by extension) leitmotif (recurring theme)

leitmotiv n (plural leitmotivuri)

1. obsolete form of laitmotiv

• leitmotiv in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• leitmotif, leit motiv

German Leitmotiv.

• IPA^(key): /lei(d)moˈtif/ [lei̯(ð̞).moˈt̪if]
  • Rhymes: -if
• IPA^(key): /lei(d)moˈtib/ [lei̯(ð̞).moˈt̪iβ̞]
  • Rhymes: -ib
• IPA^(key): /laidmoˈtif/ [lai̯ð̞.moˈt̪if]
  • Rhymes: -if

leitmotiv m (plural leitmotivs or leitmotiv)

1. (music) leitmotif (a recurring melodic theme in an opera)
2. (by extension) leitmotif (recurring theme)

• “leitmotiv”, 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
• “leitmotiv”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN
• Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “leitmotiv”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]