æquison
English
Alternative forms
- equison (standard spelling)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aequisonus, from aequus (“equal”) in combination with sonus (“sounding”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĕʹkwĭsən, IPA(key): /ˈɛkwɪsən/
Noun
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.
- 1609, John Dowlan, Andreas Ornithoparcus: His Micrologus, or Introduction: Containing the Art of Singing, page 79:
References
- “†ˈequison¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
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