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ti.

A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

2 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/tiː/
  1. A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

Where this word comes from

Coined by English music educator Sarah Anna Glover in 1812 as an alteration of si for her solmization, made so that every note of solfège would begin with a different letter, from Middle English si (“seventh degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian si in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the initials of Latin Sāncte Iohannēs (“Saint John (the Baptist)”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

noun/tiː/
  1. A good luck plant (Cordyline fruticosa), an evergreen shrub.

Where this word comes from

From a Polynesian language, related to Hawaiian kī.

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