synthesizer

See also: Synthesizer

English

Alternative forms

• synthesiser (especially UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English synthesize

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English synthesizer

From synthesize + -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪn.θəˌsaɪ.zə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪn.θəˌsaɪ.zɚ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

synthesizer (plural synthesizers)

2. (music) An electronic musical instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and generally is played via a keyboard.
3. (music) An electronic instrument consisting of a module, or a set of modules, that creates its sounds with electronics and does not have any keyboard.
4. (electronics) An electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation with accurate timing from a reference oscillator.
5. (electronics) An electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns to test an electronic circuit.
6. (software) A software program that allows a computer to be used as a musical instrument – virtual instrument

Derived terms

• biosynthesizer
• radiosynthesizer
• synthesist
• voice synthesizer

Descendants

• → Hebrew: סינתיסייזר (síntisayzer)

Translations

music: an electronic keyboard instrument

• Albanian: sintetizues (sq) m
• Arabic: سِنْثِسَيْزَر m (sinṯisayzar), سينثيسايزر m (sīnṯīsāyzar), مُرَكِّب (ar) m (murakkib), جِهَاز مَزْج m (jihāz mazj)
• Armenian: սինթեզատոր (sintʻezator)
• Belarusian: сінтэзатар m (sintezatar)
• Bulgarian: синтеза́тор m (sintezátor)
• Catalan: sintetitzador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合成器 (zh) (héchéngqì)

• Corsican: sintetizatore m, sintetizadore m
• Czech: syntezátor m
• Danish: synthesizer c
• Dutch: synthesizer (nl) m
• Esperanto: sintezilo, sinto
• Estonian: süntesaator
• Finnish: syntetisaattori (fi)
• French: synthétiseur (fr) m
• Galician: sintetizador m
• Georgian: სინთეზატორი (sintezaṭori)
• German: Synthesizer (de) m
• Greek: συνθετητής m (synthetitís)
• Hebrew: סינתיסייזר m (síntisayzer), מְסַנְתֵּז m (m'santéz), סַנְתָז m (santáz)
• Hungarian: szintetizátor (hu)
• Indonesian: penyintesis
• Irish: sintéiseoir m
• Italian: sintetizzatore (it) m
• Japanese: シンセサイザー (ja) (shinsesaizā)
• Kazakh: синтезатор (sıyntezator)
• Khmer: សង្គ្រោះ (km) (sangkroh)
• Korean: 합성기(合成器) (hapseonggi), 신시사이저 (sinsisaijeo), 신세사이자 (sinsesaija) (North Korea)
• Lao: ການສັງເຄາະ (kān sang khǫ)
• Latin: synthetisator m
• Macedonian: синтисајзер m (sintisajzer)
• Malay: pensintesis
• Malayalam: പ്രയോഗങ്ങൾ (prayōgaṅṅaḷ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fjøl m or f,

• Occitan: sintetizador m
• Polish: syntezator (pl) m inan, syntetyzator m inan, syntetyzer m inan
• Portuguese: sintetizador (pt) m
• Romanian: sintetizator (ro) n
• Russian: синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor)
• Sardinian: sintetizadore m, sintetitzadore m
• Scots: synthesiser
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: синтесајзер m

  Latin: sintesajzer (sh) m

• Slovak: sintetizator m
• Spanish: sintetizador m
• Swedish: synthesizer (sv) c, synt (sv) c
• Tajik: синтезатор (tg) (sintezator)
• Thai: ซินธิไซเซอร์ (sin-tí-sai-sêr)
• Vietnamese: bộ tổng hợp
• Yiddish: סינטאַסייזער (sintaseyzer)

music: an electronic instrument module without a keyboard

• Arabic: سِنْثِسَيْزَر m (sinṯisayzar), سينثيسايزر m (sīnṯīsāyzar), مُرَكِّب (ar) m (murakkib), جِهَاز مَزْج m (jihāz mazj)
• Greek: συνθετητής m (synthetitís)
• Indonesian: penyintesis
• Irish: sintéiseoir m
• Italian: sintetizzatore (it) m
• Japanese: シンセサイザー (ja) (shinsesaizā), 音源 (ja) (ongen)
• Malay: pensintesis
• Polish: syntezator (pl) m inan, syntetyzator m inan, syntetyzer m inan
• Romanian: sintetizator (ro) n
• Russian: синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor)
• Sardinian: sintetizadore m, sintetitzadore m
• Scots: synthesiser

electronics: an electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation

• Indonesian: penyintesis
• Irish: sintéiseoir m
• Japanese: シンセサイザー (ja) (shinsesaizā)
• Malay: pensintesis
• Polish: syntezator (pl) m inan, syntetyzator m inan, syntetyzer m inan
• Russian: синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor)

electronics: an electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns

• Indonesian: penyintesis
• Irish: sintéiseoir m
• Japanese: シンセサイザー (ja) (shinsesaizā)
• Malay: pensintesis
• Polish: syntezator (pl) m inan, syntetyzator m inan, syntetyzer m inan
• Russian: синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor)

Further reading

• synthesizer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English synthesizer.

Noun

synthesizer c

1. (music) a synthesizer

   Synonym: (colloquial) synt

Declension

Declension of synthesizer

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	synthesizer	synthesizers
	definite	synthesizern	synthesizerns
plural	indefinite	synthesizers, synthesizer	synthesizers
	definite	synthesizerna	synthesizernas

See also

• keyboard (“electronic musical keyboard”)
• syntpop (“synth-pop”)

References

• “synthesizer”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “synthesizer”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “synthesizer”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)