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paramese

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
paramese
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In Ancient Greek musical theory, the lowest-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth below the nete, with two movable notes between them, the trite (lower in pitch) and the paranete (higher in pitch). The paramese was higher-pitched than the mese (the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 9:8.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin paramesē, from Ancient Greek παραμέση (paramésē, literally “next to the middle [string]”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: παραμέση

Inflected Forms

parameses (plural)

Questions

What does paramese mean?
In Ancient Greek musical theory, the lowest-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth below the nete, with two movable notes between them, the trite (lower in pitch) and the paranete (higher in pitch). The paramese was higher-pitched than the mese (the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 9:8.
Where does paramese come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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