Noun: etude
| Singular | etude |
| Plural | etudes |
Sample Sentences
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The etudes with metronome markings should be played in tempo, all others should be considered rubato. [2007, Michele Weir, Jazz Piano Handbook, Alfred Music Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:]
Nouns inflected like etude
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From around the year 1837, borrowed from French étude (“study”) from Latin studium. Doublet of studio and study. See: French Nouns '
étude', Latin Nouns '
studium'.