Word.ws English Dictionary

tympano

tympano noun: a kettledrum.

Noun

tympano (plural tympani)

  1. A kettledrum.

Forms of tympano

pluraltympani
alternative formtimpano

Origin of tympano

From Italian timpano. See tympanum.

Questions about tympano

What does tympano mean?
Tympano means a kettledrum.
What part of speech is tympano?
Tympano is a noun.
What is the plural of tympano?
The plural of tympano is tympani.

Words near tympano in the dictionary

  1. tympanitis
  2. tympanize
  3. tympanized
  4. tympanizes
  5. tympanizing
  6. tympano
  7. tympano-
  8. tympanocenteses
  9. tympanocentesis
  10. tympanogram
  11. tympanograms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tympano (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tympano.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tympano. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.