leitmotiv

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leitmotiv (plural leitmotivs or leitmotive)

1. Alternative form of leitmotif.
   • 1925, Cyril Winn, “The Music”, in The Master-Singers of Wagner (The Musical Pilgrim), London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, →OCLC, page 10:

     In the domain of purely instrumental music, to which leitmotive are perfectly adapted in the realization of ‘programme music’, the earliest examples are to be found in the Symphonie Fantastique of Berlioz, where what he terms idée fixe is used in the manner of a ‘leitmotiv’.

   • 1985, Christopher Shorley, “Theory, practice and beyond”, in Queneau’s Fiction: An Introductory Study, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Form), pages 66–67:

     A further application of the rhymes and repetitions is to be seen in Queneau’s use of leitmotive, whereby his texts are pervaded by objects which, again, serve to indicate the deliberate organisation underlying the surface of the narrative.

   • 1989, Iain MacRobert, “The New Black-led Churches in Britain”, in Paul Badham, editor, Religion, State, and Society in Modern Britain (Texts and Studies in Religion; 43), Lewiston, N.Y.; […]: Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, pages 126–127:

     While Pentecostalism differs both in doctrine and pneumatology from the Afro-Christian sects, its indigenisation in Jamaica has meant that the leitmotive of black folk belief reinvigorated the movement, which had been largely "de-Africanised" by white Pentecostals, and thus restored many of the perceptions and themes which had been present at the birth of the Pentecostalism in Los Angeles.

Borrowed from German Leitmotiv.

• IPA^(key): /lɛt.mɔ.tiv/

leitmotiv m (plural leitmotivs)

1. leitmotif

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

Borrowed from German Leitmotiv.

leitmotiv m (invariable)

1. leitmotif (musical or otherwise)

• lejtmotyw

Unadapted borrowing from German Leitmotiv.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlajt.mɔ.tif/

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• Rhymes: -ajtmɔtif
• Syllabification: leit‧mo‧tiv

leitmotiv m inan

1. (music) leitmotif (melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing, or idea in an opera)

   Hypernym: motyw

2. (figuratively, literary) leitmotif (recurring theme)

   Synonym: motyw przewodni

   Hypernym: temat

• leitmotiv in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• leitmotiv in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• leitmotiv in PWN's encyclopedia

leitmotiv m (plural leitmotive or leitmotivs)

1. (music) leitmotif (a recurring melodic theme in an opera)
2. (by extension) leitmotif (recurring theme)

• “leitmotiv”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

leitmotiv n (plural leitmotivuri)

1. obsolete form of laitmotiv

• leitmotiv in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• leitmotif, leit motiv

Unadapted borrowing from German Leitmotiv.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /lajtmoˈtif/ [lai̯t.moˈt̪if], /lajtmoˈtiv/ [lai̯t.moˈt̪iv]
• IPA^(key): /lejtmoˈtif/ [lei̯t.moˈt̪if], /lejtmoˈtiv/ [lei̯t.moˈt̪iv]
• Rhymes: -if, -iv
• Syllabification: leit‧mo‧tiv^[2]

leitmotiv m (plural leitmotivs or leitmotiv or leitmotive)^[3][4]

1. (music) leitmotif (a recurring melodic theme in an opera)
2. (by extension) leitmotif (recurring theme)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.