æquison
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- equison (standard spelling)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin aequisonus, from aequus (“equal”) in combination with sonus (“sounding”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĕʹkwĭsən, IPA(key): /ˈɛkwɪsən/
Noun[edit]
æquison (plural æquisons)
- (rare, music) Archaic spelling of equison.
- 1609, John Dowlan, Andreas Ornithoparcus: His Micrologus, or Introduction: Containing the Art of Singing, page 79:
- Æquisons are those notes, which being stroke together, make one sound of 2.
References[edit]
- “†ˈequison¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]