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te en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /teɪ/
• (US) audio
• /tiː/

Etymology

Sense 1: Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become te and later ti. Sense 2: The vowel of ti then changed to 'e' to signify a flattened note.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) In solfège, the seventh note of a major scale (the note B in the fixed-do system): ti.
2. In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): ta.

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Synonyms

B-flat · li · ta · si

te en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Т / т.

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