{"id":155,"date":"2006-09-07T17:18:59","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T16:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/word-of-the-day-tintinnabulation\/"},"modified":"2006-09-07T17:18:59","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T16:18:59","slug":"word-of-the-day-tintinnabulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; tintinnabulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>tintinnabulation = the act or an instance of the ringing or pealing of bells. From Latin <em>tintinn\u0101re<\/em> to tinkle, from <em>tinn\u012bre<\/em> to ring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related words<\/strong><br \/>\ntintinnabulte = to ring, to tinkle<br \/>\ntintinnabulary = a bellringer<br \/>\ntintinnabulum = a small high-pitched bell<br \/>\ntinnitus = medical term for a ringing or buzzing in the ears<\/p>\n<p>I came across this word on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/weirdwords\/ww-tin1.htm\">World Wide Words<\/a> today and it really appeals to me as a pleasant-sounding word and as a fine example of onomatopoeia. Another onomatopoeic term for the ringing of bells in ding dong, in both English and French. The French for tintinnabulation is <em>tintinnabulement<\/em>, the Spanish is <em>campanilleo<\/em>, and the German is <em>Klingeln<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What sounds do bells make in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tintinnabulation = the act or an instance of the ringing or pealing of bells. From Latin tintinn\u0101re to tinkle, from tinn\u012bre to ring. Related words tintinnabulte = to ring, to tinkle tintinnabulary = a bellringer tintinnabulum = a small high-pitched bell tinnitus = medical term for a ringing or buzzing in the ears I came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}