violin
VIOLIN
*violina (must be retained perhaps with quae dicta for fides has much too wide a signification; neither do tetrachordum or barbitos suit). To play on the violin violina canere; (well) scite: a player on the violin *violinista (analogously with citharista); or *violina canere doctus. ☞ In Latin of the Middle Ages this instrument is called giga or gugalia.
*violina (must be retained perhaps with quae dicta for fides has much too wide a signification; neither do tetrachordum or barbitos suit). To play on the violin violina canere; (well) scite: a player on the violin *violinista (analogously with citharista); or *violina canere doctus. ☞ In Latin of the Middle Ages this instrument is called giga or gugalia.
violin: no exact equivalent: for the sake of distinctness, *viŏlīna (quae dicitur), must be used (Georg.): *giga, M. L.: to play (well) on the v., *violina (scite) canere (Georg.).