See also:

• VIOLONCELLO (Fr. violoncelle, Ger. Violoncell, Ital. violoncello)

VIOLONCELLO (Fr. violoncelle, Ger. Violoncell, Ital. violoncello)  , the See also:

• BASS
• BASS (the same word as " base," and so pronounced, but influenced in spelling by the Ital. basso)

bass member of the See also:

• VIOLIN

violin See also:

• FAMILY

family . Although the word See also:

• VIOLONCELLO (Fr. violoncelle, Ger. Violoncell, Ital. violoncello)

violoncello is a diminutive, signifying " small violone," or See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double bass, the See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument is really a bass violin, formed on a different See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model from the violone, which has the sloping shoulders and See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat back of the See also:

• VIOL

viol family, whereas those of the violoncello are rounded as in the violin . The construction of the violoncello is therefore the same as that of the violin (q.v.) but on a much larger See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale . It is either held, on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of its See also:

• SIZE

size, between the performer's knees, or rests on the See also:

• FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor supported on a See also:

• FOOT

foot or spike .