different between jongleur vs minstrel

English

Alternative forms

• jongler

Etymology

Borrowed from French jongleur. Doublet of juggler.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?d????.?l?/, /???.??l?/

Noun

jongleur (plural jongleurs)

1. An itinerant entertainer in medieval England and France; roles included song, music, acrobatics etc.; a troubadour.
   • 1874', John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People

     vivacity and picturesqueness of the jongleur's verse

2. A juggler; a conjurer.
3. A mountebank.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French jongleur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j???lø?r/
• Hyphenation: jong?leur
• Rhymes: -ø?r

Noun

jongleur m (plural jongleurs)

1. A juggler.

Derived terms

• jongleuren

Related terms

• jongleren

French

Etymology

From Old French jangleor (and various other spellings) from jongler (“to entertain”). Doublet of juggler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.?lœ?/

Noun

jongleur m (plural jongleurs, feminine jongleuse)

1. (dated) an entertainer
2. a juggler
3. (Louisiana) a daydreamer

Descendants

Further reading

• “jongleur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Middle English menestrel, from Old French menestral (“entertainer, servant, official”) from Latin ministeri?lis (“servant”), from ministerium (“service”), from minister (“servant”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?nst??l/

Noun

minstrel (plural minstrels)

1. (historical) A medieval traveling entertainer who would sing and recite poetry, often to his own musical accompaniment.
2. (US) One of a troupe of entertainers who wore black makeup (blackface) to present a so-called minstrel show, being a variety show of song, dance and banjo music.

Quotations

• 1885 — Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado

  A wandering minstrel I —

  A thing of shreds and patches,

  Of ballads, songs and snatches,

Synonyms

• (traveling musical entertainer): bard, folk singer, troubadour

Translations

See also

• vaudeville

Anagrams

• meltrins

Czech

Alternative forms

• menestrel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?nstr?l]
• Hyphenation: min?s?t?rel

Noun

minstrel m anim

1. minstrel

   Synonym: žaké?

Declension

Further reading

• minstrel in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• minstrel in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Polish

Etymology

From English minstrel, from Old French menestral, from Latin ministeri?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?in.str?l/

Noun

minstrel m pers

1. (historical) minstrel (medieval traveling entertainer)

Declension

Further reading

• minstrel in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• minstrel in Polish dictionaries at PWN