Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.
From Middle English si (“seventh degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian si in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the initials of Latin Sāncte Iohannēs (“Saint John (the Baptist)”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon; thus, also an initialism of Sāncte Iohannēs.
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- Inherited-form mentionsienm
- Derivation mentionsiit
- Derivation mentionSāncte Iohannēsla · Saint John (the Baptist)
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