mene
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The high middle singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition, corresponding roughly to the alto.
name
A goddess of the Moon, specifically presiding over the months, sometimes regarded as an epithet of Selene.
name
A surname
Example Sentences
- "He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave."
- "The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble."
- "The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above."
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μήνη (Mḗnē).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Μήνη