Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek music, a minor third. According to the Greek tuning, this was somewhat less than a modern minor third, and dissonant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Mus.) The lesser third.
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- noun music, Ancient Greece The lesser third.
Etymologies
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hemi- + ditone
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