Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale. · Sometimes syllable for the seventh.
From Glover's solmization, from Middle English mi (“third degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian mi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin mīra (“miracles; the miraculous”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
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