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单词 nete
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neten.

Brit. /ˈniːtiː/, U.S. /ˈniˌti/
Forms: 1600s– nete, 1900s– netê.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Greek νήτη, νεάτη, νέατος.
Etymology: < ancient Greek νήτη (Aristotle), contracted form of νεάτη (Cratinus, Plato) the lowest of the three strings forming the musical scale, though the highest in pitch, use as noun (short for νεάτη χορδή : see chord n.1) of the feminine singular of νέατος lowest < νειός fallow land (cognate with Old Church Slavonic ńiva field, Russian niva field; < an extended form (-w- extension) of the Indo-European base of nether adv.1) + -ατος , suffix forming superlatives and ordinal numbers, representing an extended form (with -α- after δέκατος tenth adj.) of the Indo-European suffix forming superlatives and ordinal numbers (see -th suffix2). Compare classical Latin nētē (Vitruvius), Middle French nete (1572 in the passage translated in quot. 1603), Italian nete (1611 in Florio, denoting a lyre string).
Ancient Greek Music.
The name of the highest note in each of the highest two tetrachords. Cf. paranete n., mese n.3
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > ancient Greek scales > notes of tetrachords
mese1597
proslambanomenos1597
subprincipal1597
hypate1603
nete1603
paramese1603
paranete1603
parhypate1706
penultima1745
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 198 Trite synemmenon, or synezeugmenon, paranete synezeugmenon, and nete synezeugmenon. But least these strange names, seeme fitter to coniure a spirite, then to expresse the Art, I haue thought good to giue the names in English [etc.].]
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 796 The three termes or bounds which make the intervals in an octave or eight, of musicke harmonicall, to wit, Nete, Mese, and Hypate, that is to say, the Treble, the Meane, and the Base.
1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 137 In this Scale of Disdiapason..the Mese is an Octave below the Nete Hyperbolæon, and an Octave above the Proslambanomenos.
1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 735 The story of his [sc. Pythagoras'] discovering, at a forge, the ratios of hypate, mese, paramese, and nete, is well known.
1801 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Nete, the name given by the ancient Greeks to the fourth, or most acute chord, of each of the three tetrachords which followed the two first, or deepest.
1898 J. Stainer Stainer & Barrett's Dict. Musical Terms (rev. ed.) 1/1 A,..the letter-name of Mese, the highest note of the middle tetrachord; and of Nete, the highest note of the upper tetrachord.
1957 New Oxf. Hist. Music 1 ix. 344 The names of the notes do not refer to pitch, for they may be differently placed in different genera, and nete varies with the conjunct and disjunct systems.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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