Tympanum

  • 131timbre — characteristic quality of a musical sound, 1849, from Fr. timbre quality of a sound, earlier sound of a bell, from O.Fr., bell without a clapper, originally drum, probably via Medieval Gk. *timbanon, from Gk. tympanon kettledrum (see TYMPANUM (Cf …

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  • 132timpani — 1876, plural of timpano (1740), from It. timpani drums, from L. tympanum drum (see TYMPANUM (Cf. tympanum)) …

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