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Meaning of "mensural" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MENSURAL

From Late Latin mēnsūrālis, from mēnsūrameasure.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MENSURAL

mensural  [ˈmɛnʃərəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MENSURAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mensural is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MENSURAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mensural in the English dictionary

The definition of mensural in the dictionary is of or involving measure. Other definition of mensural is of or relating to music in which notes have fixed values in relation to each other.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MENSURAL


agricultural
ˌæɡrɪˈkʌltʃərəl
antinatural
ˌæntɪˈnætʃərəl
arboricultural
ˌɑːbərɪˈkʌltʃərəl
architectural
ˌɑːkɪˈtektʃərəl
bicultural
baɪˈkʌltʃərəl
cultural
ˈkʌltʃərəl
flexural
ˈflɛkʃərəl
horticultural
ˌhɔːtɪˈkʌltʃərəl
infrastructural
ˌɪnfrəˈstrʌktʃərəl
intercultural
ˌɪntəˈkʌltʃərəl
multicultural
ˌmʌltɪˈkʌltʃərəl
pictural
ˈpɪktʃərəl
scriptural
ˈskrɪptʃərəl
sculptural
ˈskʌlptʃərəl
sociocultural
ˌsəʊsɪəʊˈkʌltʃərəl
structural
ˈstrʌktʃərəl
textural
ˈtekstʃərəl
ultrastructural
ˌʌltrəˈstrʌktʃərəl
unnatural
ʌnˈnætʃərəl
viticultural
ˌvɪtɪˈkʌltʃərəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MENSURAL

menshen
Menshevik
Menshevism
Menshevist
menstrua
menstrual
menstrual cramps
menstrual cycle
menstrual period
menstrually
menstruate
menstruation
menstruous
menstruum
mensurability
mensurable
mensuration
mensurational
mensurative
menswear

WORDS THAT END LIKE MENSURAL

aural
behavioural
caesural
cesural
commissural
cross-cultural
cynosural
fissural
inaugural
incisural
mural
natural
neural
pleural
plural
procedural
rural
supernatural
sural
the supernatural

Synonyms and antonyms of mensural in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mensural» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MENSURAL

Find out the translation of mensural to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mensural from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mensural» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

关于度量
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mensural
570 millions of speakers

English

mensural
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

mensural
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

mensural
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мензуральной
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mensural
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পরিমাপসংক্রান্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mensurale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mensural
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mensural
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

mensural
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

mensural
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mensural
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trọng lượng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

mensural
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सांध्यासंबंधी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ölçüye ait
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mensurale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

menzuralna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мензуральній
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mensural
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mensural
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vaste ritme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mensural
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mensural
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mensural

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MENSURAL»

The term «mensural» is normally little used and occupies the 125.492 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MENSURAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mensural» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mensural» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mensural

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MENSURAL»

Discover the use of mensural in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mensural and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Morphologie: Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Flexion und ...
A major distinction to be made among numeral classifiers is between sortal and mensural classifiers. Mensural classifiers are used for measuring units of both mass and count nouns (cf. Art. 101) and are a fairly large open-ended lexical class.
G. E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, 2004
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Words and Music in the Middle Ages: Song, Narrative, Dance ...
A seemingly more cogent objection is based on the fact that in some sources of monody, French and Latin songs are found in mensural or semi-mensural versions, or have been mensuralized by notational alterations. In the trouvere repertoire, ...
John Stevens, 1986
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Musica Asiatica:
Korean scores in the modified fifteenth-century mensural notation JONATHAN CONDIT* (Jesus College, Cambridge) The earliest surviving musical score in Korea is contained in the Veritable Records of Sejong (1454), a chronicle of events ...
Laurence Picken, 1984
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Ars Cantus Mensurabilis Mensurata Per Modos Iuris
Therefore, this could be a brief companion to the mensural treatise. In addition, this section contains a quotation from Boethius that also appears in the mensural treatise. Arguing against its inclusion as part of the mensural treatise, however, ...
C. Matthew Balensuela, 1994
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Meter in Music, 1600-1800: Performance, Perception, and Notation
The origins of the modem measure are found in the changes that occurred in mensural notation in the seventeenth century. The speed of the tactus varied under different circumstances during the sixteenth century; however, variations of speed ...
George Houle, 1999
6
Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type
married upon arrival, he would have been ready to start a type business in 1480, the year in which six pages of mensural music were printed with the first mensural type in a Grammatica written by Francesco Niger and printed by Theodor ...
Mary Kay Duggan, 1992
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Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music
Domarto, which is confirmed by the mensural usage of the mass.72 The most remarkable aspect of the cantus firmus treatment of the L'ardant desir composer is that he regarded and treated the mensurally notated tenor as an indivisible entity.
Iain Fenlon, 2009
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A Grammar of Atong
12.2.3 Mensural Classifiers the mensural classifiers recorded so far have only been used to quantify quantities of inanimate referents. there are three types of mensural classifiers in atong, viz. type 1. mensural by arrangement, type 2. mensural ...
Seino van Breugel, 2014
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The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected ...
... 1565: 336e; 1567: 264e, 342e, 348e Types, Music, by, 276–84 1549, Haultin's first Two-line Great Primer single- impression mensural music [M 9.4], 282 1551, Haultin's Two-line English-bodied single- impression mensural music [M 8.2], ...
Hendrik D. L. Vervliet, 2008
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Classifiers in Kam-Tai Languages: A Cognitive and Cultural ...
Classifiers that are not usually used to differentiate entities have been treated as mensural classifiers. Such classifiers display different semantic properties than sortal classifiers. “The choice of a mensural classifier is conditioned by two factors: ...
Tian Qiao Lu, 2012

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MENSURAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mensural is used in the context of the following news items.
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Prince of the Player Piano
But their most intriguing feature is their use of the mensural canon. In more common canons, one voice imitates another after some delay. «The New York Review of Books, Jun 15»
2
UNM Professor Emeritus of English Patrick Gallacher dies
One student recounts his help in translating Marchettus of Padua's treatise of the early 14th century on mensural music notation, which the ... «UNM Newsroom, Feb 15»
3
How Time's Arrow and the Phrygian Half-Step Make Jewish Music …
The purpose of free melismatic improvisation in Jewish tradition is quite different from that of Western mensural music. The ordering of Western ... «Tablet Magazine, Sep 14»
4
Guerrero Brush Finch: New Bird Species Found in Mexico
... Arremon brunneinucha brunneinucha complex in terms of mensural characters or plumage coloration,” Dr Peterson with colleagues noted. «Sci-News.com, Oct 13»
5
Knussen receives honorary NEC doctorate; BMOP concert shows …
Although it came wrapped in an aspirational title and much program-notery about waves, particles, relativity, mensural canons and the like, ... «Boston Classical Review, Apr 13»
6
Too Loud & It All Sounds The Same? Why Researchers Were Wrong …
... elements of music, rhythm, whether that be harmonic rhythm, timbral rhythm, melodic rhythm, or the mensural rhythms of tempo and metre. «The Quietus, Dec 12»
7
Prom 7: Rossini, Haydn, Elgar — Prom 8: Obrecht, Ockeghem …
Both composers used ingenious methods of development in their works; Obrecht's gradual mensural contractions (within each section of his ... «Musical Criticism, Jul 08»

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