instrumental
English
/ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/
adj
Definitions
- essential or central; of great importance or relevance.
- (music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).
- (grammar) Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English instrumental derived from Latin instrumentalis derived from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*strew-
Gloss
strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- constructible English
- constructional English
- constructionism English
- constructive English
- constructivism English
- constructivist English
- deinstrumentalize English
- destruct English
- destructible English
- destructively English
- destructiveness English
- destructivity English
- instrumentalisation English
- instrumentalism English
- instrumentalist English
- instrumentality English
- instrumentalize English
- instrumentalizer English
- instrumentally English
- instrumentalness English
- noninstrumental English
- obstruct English
- uninstrumental English
- constructio Latin
- constructus Latin
- construere Latin
- construo Latin
- cōnstructiō Latin
- destructio Latin
- destructio, dēstructiōnem, dēstructiō Latin
- destructivus Latin
- destruo Latin
- dēstruō Latin
- instrumentalis Latin
- obstructio Latin
- strava Latin
- strues Latin
- īnstrūmentum Latin
- *strew- Proto-Indo-European
- *straupijaną Proto-Germanic
- *strawjaną Proto-Germanic
- *streuną Proto-Germanic
- インストゥルメンタル Japanese
- strȳnd Old English
- instrument Middle English
- instrumental Middle English
- misconstruen Middle English
- *strowō Proto-Italic
- стройи Old East Slavic
- obstruct
- destruct
- constructive
- destructible
- destructivity
- destructively
- constructible
- instrumentally
- constructivism
- uninstrumental
- constructional
- constructivist
- noninstrumental
- constructionism
- instrumentalism
- instrumentalist
- destructiveness
- instrumentality
- instrumentalize
- instrumentalness
- instrumentalizer
- deinstrumentalize
- instrumentalisation