Editing Flute (section)

==Etymology and terminology==
The word ''flute'' first appeared in the English language during the [[Middle English]] period, as ''floute'',<ref name="Flute">{{cite web| url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/flute|title=Flute|publisher=The Free Dictionary By Farlex|access-date=25 May 2012}}</ref> ''flowte'', or ''flo(y)te'',<ref name="C Weiner 1989">Simpson, J. A. and Weiner, E. S. C. (eds.), "flute, ''n.1''", ''Oxford English Dictionary'', second edition. 20 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. {{ISBN|0-19-861186-2}}.</ref> possibly from [[Old French]] ''flaute'' and [[Old Provençal]] ''flaüt'',<ref name="Flute"/> or possibly from Old French ''fleüte'', ''flaüte'', ''flahute'' via [[Middle High German]] ''floite'' or [[Dutch language|Dutch]] ''fluit''. The English verb ''flout'' has the same linguistic root, and the modern Dutch verb ''fluiten'' still shares the two meanings.<ref name=Fenwick/> Attempts to trace the word back to the Latin ''flare'' (to blow, inflate) have been called "phonologically impossible" or "inadmissable".<ref name="C Weiner 1989"/> The first known use of the word ''flute'' was in the 14th century.<ref>{{cite dictionary| url= http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flute|title=Flute|dictionary=Merriam-Webster|access-date=25 May 2012}}</ref> According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', this was in [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Hous of Fame]]'', {{Circa|1380}}.<ref name="C Weiner 1989"/>

A musician who plays any instrument in the flute family can be called a flutist,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/flutist |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111070642/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/flutist |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 January 2015 |title=Flutist |work=Oxford English Dictionary (American English) |access-date=5 January 2015}}</ref> flautist,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/flautist |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111061750/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/flautist |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 January 2015 |title=Flautist |work=Oxford English Dictionary (British & World English) |access-date=5 January 2015}}</ref> or flute player. ''Flutist'' dates back to at least 1603, the earliest quotation cited by the ''Oxford English Dictionary''. ''Flautist'' was used in 1860 by [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] in ''[[The Marble Faun]]'', after being adopted during the 18th century from Italy (''flautista'', itself from ''flauto''), like many musical terms in England since the [[Italian Renaissance]]. Other English terms, now virtually obsolete, are ''fluter'' (15th–19th centuries)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/72222 |title=Fluter (c.1400) |work=Oxford English Dictionary}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=fluter |title=Fluter |work=Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language |access-date=5 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111061314/http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=fluter |archive-date=11 January 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fluter |title=Fluter |work=Random House Dictionary and Collins English Dictionary |access-date=5 January 2015}}</ref> and ''flutenist'' (17th and 18th centuries).<ref name=Fenwick>{{cite web |url=http://www.fenwicksmith.com/miscellany_flautist.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116191634/http://www.fenwicksmith.com/miscellany_flautist.html |archive-date=16 January 2014 |title=Is it flutist or flautist? |first=Fenwick |last=Smith |url-status=usurped |access-date=5 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gTElurCu-WYC&pg=PA2291 |title=Flutenist |work=The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia |access-date=5 January 2015|year=1906 }}</ref>