Is it a fiddle or a violin?

Many people often get violins and fiddles confused. I myself didn't know what the difference was. I mean they're both made of wood, they both have strings, and you strum them both with a bow. They both make music.. So that must be the difference. Wrong! So what's the difference? I'm about to show you.
Before I tell you this difference, I'm going to brush you up on a little fiddle/violin history. The bowed string instrument first appeared in India circa 3000 BC, and is described in Hindu myth as Ravanahatha. From India, the technology traveled out both to China, and through Central Asia to Europe.
The medieval fiddle emerged in 10th-century Europe, deriving from the Byzantine lira,(Greek:λύρα, Latin:lira, English:lyre), a bowed string instrument of the Byzantine Empire and ancestor of most European bowed instruments. The first recorded reference to the bowed lira was in the 9th century by the Persian geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih; in his lexicographical discussion of instruments he cited the lira (lūrā) as a typical instrument of the Byzantines and equivalent to the rabāb played in the Islamic Empires. Lira spread widely westward to Europe; in the 11th and 12th centuries European writers use the terms fiddle and lira interchangeably when referring to bowed instruments (Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009).
So here's the big difference. Fiddle is a general term than violin. Violin is a more specific term used to describe a violin and a violin only! A fiddle may refer to anything within the violin family. Even a bass violin.. or more commonly called a cello.
Here's some quotes that people joke about being the difference. Various clichés describe the difference between fiddle and violin: "When you are buying it, it's a fiddle. When you are selling it, it's a violin." "What's the difference between a violin and a fiddle? About $10,000." "The difference is in the nut that holds the bow." "The violin sings, the fiddle dances." "A fiddle is a violin with attitude." "No one cries when they spill beer on a fiddle." "The difference between a violinist and a fiddle player is $100 a night, and a tux."According to the performer Shoji Tabuchi, the difference lies "in how you fiddle around with it."