Etymology

symphoniette

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Today it means: A sinfonietta. Full definition →

French symphoniette
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromsymphoniette
  2. English todaysymphoniette

From the French symphoniette: first used in translation ante 1888, and for the name of an original composition in 1943.

Words from the same roots

Frenchsymphoniette all →

sinfonietta

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.