Tympanum
121Nathaniel Hitch — Nationality English Field Sculpture Training Was sent by Farmer and Brindley to evening classes at Borough Polytechnic before setting out as a journeyman sculptor …
122Antiguo Casino de Ponce — Casino de Ponce U.S. National Register of Historic Places …
123ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE — The Romanesque style, named for the classical Roman features that characterize it, dates to the 11th and 12th centuries and features a thriving artistic culture. Medieval monastic communities enjoyed a continued growth, and towns often grew up …
124ROTA — I. ROTA Lusitanis dicitur, vimen illud mirabile, quod in Quantonia provinc. Sinici Imperii crescit et incolis Teng vocatur. Funem a natura contortum, credas, quod in maximam extendatur longitudinem, ac veluti funus per terram ac montes prorepat.… …
125TAUROPOLIUM — urbs Aquitaniae. Erat et templum Dianae in Samo insul. praeclarum, Steph. in Iearia. Dionysius, – Ο῞θι Ταυροπόλοιο θεοῖο Βωμοὶ κνιςςήεντες ἀδευκέα καπνὸν ἔχουσι. Vide Suidam in Ταυροπόλαν. Quibusdam idem cum Taurobolio, de quo supra. Et certe… …
126timpani — [16] Timpani was borrowed from Italian, where it is the plural of timpano ‘kettledrum’. This in turn went back via Latin tympanum ‘drum’ (source of English tympanum ‘ear drum’ [17]) to Greek túmpanon ‘drum’, a close relative of the verb túptein… …
127timbre — characteristic quality of a musical sound, 1849, from Fr. timbre quality of a sound, earlier sound of a bell, from O.Fr., bell without a clapper, originally drum, probably via Medieval Gk. *timbanon, from Gk. tympanon kettledrum (see TYMPANUM (Cf …
128timpani — 1876, plural of timpano (1740), from It. timpani drums, from L. tympanum drum (see TYMPANUM (Cf. tympanum)) …
