techno

See also: Techno and techno-

English

Etymology

Clipping of technology.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛknoʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

techno (uncountable)

1. (music) A repetitive style of music originally produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythmic component is most often in common time (4/4), where time is marked with a bass drum on each quarter note pulse, a backbeat played by snare or clap on the second and fourth pulses of the bar, and an open hi-hat sounding every second eighth note.
   • 2008 March 21, Tim Sullivan, “Bhutanese reluctantly stepping into world of democracy”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section)‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 December 2013‎^[2]:

     This is a country where nightclubs in Thimbu, the capital, throb with techno music, but where smoking is illegal and television did not arrive until 1999.

Derived terms

• hardcore techno
• techno-fundamentalism
• techno-fundamentalist
• technopop
• technorock
• toytown techno

Translations

style of music

• Arabic: تِكْنُو m (tiknū), تَكْنُو m (taknū)
• Breton: tekno m, techno m
• Bulgarian: техно (tehno)
• Catalan: techno, tecno
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高科技舞曲 (gāokējì wǔqǔ), 鐵克諾音樂 / 铁克诺音乐 (tiěkènuò yīnyuè)

• Czech: techno (cs) n
• Danish: techno
• Dutch: techno (nl) m
• Esperanto: teĥno, tekno, teĥnomuziko, teknomuziko
• Estonian: tekno, tehno
• Finnish: tekno (fi), teknomusiikki, techno (fi)
• Galician: techno, tecno
• Georgian: ტექნო (ṭekno)
• German: Techno (de) m
• Greek: τέκνο (el) n (tékno)
• Hebrew: טכנו m (tekhno)
• Hungarian: techno (hu)
• Icelandic: teknó
• Ido: tekno
• Italian: techno
• Japanese: テクノ (tekuno)
• Korean: 테크노 (tekeuno)
• Latin: musica technica f, technicum n
• Latvian: tehno
• Lithuanian: techno
• Marathi: टेक्नो n (ṭekno)
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: techno

• Persian: تکنو
• Polish: techno (pl) n
• Portuguese: tecno (pt) m
• Quechua: techno
• Romanian: techno
• Russian: те́хно (ru) n (téxno)
• Scottish Gaelic: teacno
• Serbo-Croatian: techno (sh)
• Sicilian: techno
• Slovak: techno
• Slovene: techno
• Spanish: techno m
• Swedish: techno (sv)
• Thai: เทคโน (th)
• Ukrainian: техно (texno)
• Vietnamese: techno

See also

• techno-
• house
• trance

Anagrams

• Conteh, Tonche

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛxno]

Noun

techno n

1. techno (music style)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• See technika

Further reading

• “techno”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English techno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛx.noː/, /ˈtɛk.noː/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

techno m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. techno (musical genre)

Derived terms

• technofeest
• technomuziek
• technorave

Further reading

• techno on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English techno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛk.no/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Noun

techno m (uncountable)

1. techno

Further reading

• “techno”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛk.no/
• Rhymes: -ɛkno
• Hyphenation: tèch‧no

Noun

techno m (invariable)

1. (music) techno

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English techno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛx.nɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛxnɔ
• Syllabification: tech‧no

Noun

techno n (indeclinable)

1. techno music

Further reading

• techno in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• techno in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

techno m (plural technos)

1. alternative form of tecno

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɡno/ [ˈt̪eɣ̞.no]
• Rhymes: -eɡno
• Syllabification: tech‧no

Noun

techno m (uncountable)

1. techno