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hypate

Meaning of "hypate" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HYPATE

ˈhɪpətiː


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPATE

noun
adjective
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adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hypate is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYPATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hypate

In Greek mythology, Hypate was one of the three Muses of the lyre who were worshipped at Delphi, where the Temple of Apollo and the Oracle were located. Her name was also the highest of the seven notes of the lyre. Her sisters who were worshipped along with her were Nete and Mese. These three muses were comparable to the original three, Aoide, Melete, and Mneme. Alternatively, they were Cephisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, which portrayed them as the daughters of Apollo.

Definition of hypate in the English dictionary

The definition of hypate in the dictionary is the highest placed string of the ancient Greek lyre which produced the lowest tone.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPATE

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPATE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPATE

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Synonyms and antonyms of hypate in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hypate» into 25 languages

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हिपेट
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPATE»

Discover the use of hypate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hypate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Harmony of the World
The antique The ancients, then, in the time of Aristotle107 enumerated the names of the strings in the following way: Hypate [highest], Parhypate [next to highest], Lichanos [forefinger], Mese [middle], Paramese [next to middle], Trite [third], ...
Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, Alistair Matheson Duncan, 1997
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De Proportionibus
Let there be, therefore, the consonance of the diapason that is contained between hypate meson and nete diezeug- menon; each of these agrees with each and also is joined together in sound so that one pitch — as if from one string , not as if ...
Johannes Ciconia, Oliver B. Ellsworth, 1993
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Greek Musical Writings: Volume 2, Harmonic and Acoustic Theory
And since an echo, too, is a sort of answering-song to a sound, and since when neate is ceasing an echo identical with the note of hypate is aroused,73 it is to be expected that neate seems to move hypate, because of the similarity. For we ...
Andrew Barker, 2004
4
General history of the science and practice of music. [With] ...
'81 to 76 ; and lastly by an incomplete trihemitone, ' in the ratio of 19 to 16 :• — c PS o I — I — ^ a < es H Hypate meson Trihemitone, 16 to 19 : — Lychanos hypaton Semitone, 7G to 81 □ Parypate hypaton Lesser semitone, 243 to 256 Hypate ...
sir John Hawkins, 1858
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A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
'776 — — Parypate hypaton H Lesser semitone, 243 to 256 8192 Hypate hypaton his da - turn est A=H^p-U=^^^^^^ no - see Mis. genera is much too copious to be inserted here ; it is therefore referred to a part of this work reserved for an ...
Sir John Hawkins, 1875
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Ancient Greece and Rome
Each of Aristoxenus' scales has at its core a tetrachord, a set of four notes extending a fourth, with fixed notes at either end. The lower of the two fixed notes was called hypate ̄ (topmost), evidently because the theorists envisioned the scales ...
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Plutarch's Morals
Thus, as we said before, nete consisting of twelve units, and hypate of six, the paramese accords with hypate according to the sesquialter proportion, and has nine units, whilst mese has eight units. So that the chiefest intervals through the ...
Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin, 1883
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Plutarch's Morals
Thus, as we said before, nete consisting of twelve units, and hypate of six, the paramese accords with hypate according to the sesquialter proportion, and has nine units, whilst mese has eight units. 80 that the chiefest intervals through the ...
W.W. Goodwin
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The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato, in Five ...
And let it be nete or the last sound, which has a double ratio to hypate. But the third sound must be placed equal to the first, second, and third. For it will be a sound which will have a triple ratio to hypate, surpassing neie by as much as nete ...
Proclus, 1820
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Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music
What Steps Are Meant by "Hypate" and "Nete" Bardi. The majority of those who have written about music, especially Aristotle, Ptolemy, Plutarch, Suidas, and Boethius, speak in this way of these two strings.695 The locution is customary, not ...
Vincenzo Galilei, 2003
REFERENCE
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