violinist (n.)

1660s, from Italian violinista, from violino (see violin).

also from 1660s

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1570s, from Italian violino, diminutive of viola (see viola). The modern form of the smaller, medieval viola da braccio.

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player

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administration

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lie

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"the black liquor with which men write" [Johnson], mid-13c., inke, from Old French enche, encre "dark writing fluid" (12c.), earlier enque (11c.), originally enca, from a shortening of Late Latin encaustum, from Late Greek enkauston. This is the neuter of the past-participle adje

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