The story
- Latin · derived fromdulcis“sweet”
- English todaydulcitone
Coined by Thomas Machell, the instrument’s inventor, in 1888, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”) + tonus (“tone”).
Words from the same roots
Latindulcis all →
douceDulciedulcetdulceousdulcianadulciferousdulcifieddulcifluousdulciloquentdulciloquydulcindulcisonantdulcitedulcitol
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.