conservatoire

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French conservatoire. Doublet of conservatory.

Noun

conservatoire (plural conservatoires)

1. (music) A music academy.

Synonyms

• college of music
• conservatory
• conservatory of music
• musical school
• music conservatory
• music school
• school of music

Translations

school or educational institution that teaches music

• Armenian: կոնսերվատորիա (hy) (konservatoria)
• Belarusian: кансерваторыя f (kansjervatóryja)
• Bulgarian: консервато́рия f (konservatórija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音樂學校／音乐学校 (yīnyuè xuéxiào)

• Dutch: conservatorium (nl) n
• Finnish: konservatorio (fi)
• French: conservatoire (fr) m, école de musique f, école supérieure de musique f, académie de musique f (Belgium)
• German: Konservatorium (de) n, Musikkonservatorium n, Musikakademie f, Hochschule für Musik f, Musikschule (de) f, höhere Musikschule f, Musikhochschule f
• Ido: konservatorio (io)
• Italian: conservatorio m
• Japanese: コンサーヴァトーリ (konsāvatōri)
• Kazakh: консерватория (konservatoriä)
• Kyrgyz: консерватория (ky) (konservatoriya)
• Portuguese: conservatório (pt) m
• Russian: консервато́рия (ru) f (konservatórija)
• Swedish: konservatorium (sv) n
• Turkish: konservatuvar (tr)
• Ukrainian: консерваторія f (konservatorija)
• Volapük: musigakadäm (vo) (music)

Anagrams

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɛʁ.va.twaʁ/

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Etymology 1

From conserver +‎ -(at)oire (adjective-forming suffix), a learned formation built on the supine stem cōnservāt- of Latin cōnservāre, like the noun conservation. Corresponds to the Medieval Latin adjective cōnservātōrius.

Adjective

conservatoire (plural conservatoires)

1. conservative

   Synonym: conservateur

Derived terms

• conservatoirement

Etymology 2

From conserver +‎ -(at)oire (masculine-noun-forming suffix), a learned formation built on the supine stem cōnservāt- of Latin cōnservāre. Corresponds to the post-Classical Latin neuter noun of place cōnservātōrium.

Noun

conservatoire m (plural conservatoires)

1. conservatory (for the maintenance of tradition)
2. music academy

Descendants

• → English: conservatoire
• → Turkish: konservatuvar

Further reading

• “conservatoire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.