Accordion

Table of contents

1 Etymology 2 Noun 2.1 Translations 3 Adjective 4 Derived Words 1 Romanica 1.1 Noun

Etymology

From mid nineteenth century German Akkordion based on Italian accordare (to tune). See accord.

Noun

1. (Music): A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.

   Quotations

   • a disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked - Mark Twain , Innocents Abroad
   • an instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin - Ambrose Bierce , Devil's Dictionary

Translations

• Dutch: accordeon n, harmonica m
• French: accordéon m
• German: Akkordeon n
• Indonesian: akordeon
• Interlingua: accordion
• Italian: fisarmonica
• Japanese: アコーデオン (akōdeon)
• Portuguese: acordeão
• Slovak: harmonika f
• Spanish: acordeón

Adjective

1. Pleated

   Quotations

   • an accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette - James Joyce, Ulysses

Derived Words

accordionist

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Romanica

Noun

accordion

1. accordion