change

en-noun

change (countable and uncountable, plural changes)

From Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre, present active infinitive of cambiō (“exchange, barter”), from Gaulish cambion, *kambyom (“change”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱambos, *(s)kambos (“crooked”).
Cognate with Italian cambiare, Portuguese cambiar, Romanian schimba, Sicilian canciari, Spanish cambiar. Used in English since the 13th century. Displaced native Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change”) (whence English wend).
The noun is from Middle English change, chaunge, from Old French change, from the verb changier. See also exchange. Possibly related from the same source is Old English gombe.

der

sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts

the more things change, the more they stay the same

plus ça change(, plus c'est la même chose)

Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.

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(campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.


minor

From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.

byvak

subject of secondary undergraduate study

(campanology) Changes rung on six bells.


major

en-adj

major (comparative more major, superlative most major)

more major (comparative)
most major (superlative)

From Middle English major, from Latin maior, comparative of magnus (“great, large; noble, important”), from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs (“greater”), comparative of *meǵh₂- (“great”). Compare West Frisian majoar (“major”), Dutch majoor (“major”), French majeur. Doublet of mayor.

(campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.


major

pääaineopiskelija

student specializing in a specified subject

(campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.


royal

From Middle English royal, from Old French roial (Modern French royal), from Latin rēgālis, from rēx (“king”). Doublet of regal (“befitting a king”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real. Displaced native Old English cynelīċ.

doublet

(campanology) Bell changes rung on ten bells.


rounds

(campanology) A descending diatonic scale played on a ring of bells.


doubles

→ Japanese: ダブルス (daburusu)

A quarter peal of plain bob doubles was rung.

(campanology, plural only) bell changes rung on five bells


triples

A quarter peal of plain bob triples was rung.

(campanology) bell changes rung on seven bells


caters

A quarter peal of plain bob caters was rung.

(campanology) bell changes rung on nine bells


cinques

A quarter peal of plain bob cinques was rung.

(campanology) bell changes rung on eleven bells