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Borrowed from Latin orchēstra, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra), from ὀρχέομαι (orkhéomai) + -τρᾰ (-tră).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.kɪs.tɹə/, /ˈɔː.kəs.tɹə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈoɹ.kɪs.tɹə/, /ˈoɹ.kəs.tɹə/
• (California) IPA^(key): /ˈoɹ.kɪs.tɹə/, /ˈoɹ.kəs.tɹə/, (California Vowel Shift) [ˈoɹkɛstɹə]

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kɪstɹə, -ɔː(ɹ)kəstɹə
• Hyphenation: or‧ches‧tra

orchestra (plural orchestras or (rare) orchestrae)

1. (music) A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.

   The orchestra plays music for the dancers to dance to in the 19th century-styled dance hall.

   • 1941 February, Voyageur, “The Railways of Greece”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:

     It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles.

   • 2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender):

     Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.

2. (Ancient Greece, theater) A semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic theatres.
3. The area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit, immediately in front of and below the stage, sometimes (also) used by other performers.

• carthorse, horsecart, rheocrats

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.kɛs.tʁa/

orchestra

1. third-person singular past historic of orchestrer

• torcheras

From Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra).

• IPA^(key): /orˈkɛs.tra/
• Rhymes: -ɛstra
• Hyphenation: or‧chè‧stra

orchestra f (plural orchestre)

1. orchestra
2. band
3. orchestra pit

• orchestrale
• orchestrare

• → Turkish: orkestra

orchestra

1. inflection of orchestrare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• orchestra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔrˈkʰeːs.tra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [orˈkɛs.tra]

orchēstra f (genitive orchēstrae); first declension

1. orchestra (area in front of a stage)

First-declension noun.

• “orchestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “orchestra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “orchestra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “orchestra”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “orchestra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “orchestra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• IPA^(key): /urˈkestra/

orchestra f (plural orchestre)

1. orchestra

orchestra f (plural orchestras)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of orquestra

Borrowed from French orchestrer.

a orchestra (third-person singular present orchestrează, past participle orchestrat) 1st conjugation

1. to orchestrate

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

orchestra f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of orchestră

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