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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἁρμονίᾱ (harmoníā). Doublet of harmony.

Noun

harmonia (plural harmoniai)

  1. (music) A harmonic mode in ancient Greek music, characterized by a particular set of chords and rhythmic patterns.
    • 1949, Harry Partch, Genesis of a Music: Monophony: the Relation of Its Music to Historic and Contemporary Trends; Its Philosophy, Concepts, and Principles; Its Relation to Historic and Proposed Intonations; and Its Application to Musical Instruments, The University of Wisconsin Press, pages 320 and 323:
      [] concerning the ancient Greek harmoniai, or modes, in the diatonic genus. [] degree signify the harmonia in which it appears and what degree it represents; for instance, “D-2” means that this ratio—11/10—is the second degree (ascending) in the Dorian harmonia.
    • 1991, 1/1: The Quarterly Journal of the Just Intonation Network, pages 4 and 5:
      In the case of Mixolydian harmonia, the framework chord is 11, 1411, 1410, and 21. [] while the various diatonic harmoniai are modes of each other, this is not true of the other two genera, which are uniquely derived from their corresponding diatonic forms.
    • 1993, John H. Chalmers, Jr., Divisions of the Tetrachord: A Prolegomenon to the Construction of Musical Scales, →ISBN, page 146:
      In 1935, Hamilton trained a chamber orchestra in Stuttgart to perform in the harmoniai.
    • 1999, Thomas J. Mathiesen, Apollo’s Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Lincoln, Neb.; London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 183:
      While Pollux attributed to Diodorus of Thebes the expansion of the aulos beyond four trupemata, Athenaeus and Pausanias refer to Pronomus of Thebes as the one who developed an aulos that was capable of playing aulema in Dorian, Phrygian, or Lydian harmoniai. In his description of a statue of Pronomus in Boeotia, Pausanias observes: For a time, auletes had three types of auloi. They played Dorian aulema on one, different auloi were made for pieces in the Phrygian harmonia, and the so-called Lydian aulema was played on other auloi.
    • 2020, Edward Nowacki, Greek and Latin Music Theory: Principles and Challenges, University of Rochester Press, →ISBN, page 18:
      That rhythm was somehow implicated in the identity of the harmoniai is suggested in Aristotle’s anecdote about the composer Philoxenus, who attempted to compose a dithyramb, The Mysians, in the Dorian harmonia, but was unable to do so.
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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía).

Pronunciation

Noun

harmonia f (plural harmonies)

  1. harmony

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Esperanto

Etymology

From harmonio (harmony) + -a (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /harmoˈnia/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: har‧mo‧ni‧a

Adjective

harmonia (accusative singular harmonian, plural harmoniaj, accusative plural harmoniajn)

  1. harmonious

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑrmoniɑ/, [ˈhɑ̝rmo̞ˌniɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -iɑ
  • Syllabification(key): har‧mo‧ni‧a
  • Hyphenation(key): har‧mo‧nia

Etymology 1

From Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía).

Noun

harmonia

  1. harmony
Declension
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Etymology 2

Noun

harmonia

  1. partitive singular of harmoni

Anagrams

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Galician

Noun

harmonia f (plural harmonias, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of harmonía

Further reading

  • harmonia” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía).

Pronunciation

Noun

harmonia f (genitive harmoniae); first declension

  1. harmony, concordance of sounds
  2. music, singing, song
  3. peace, concord

Declension

First-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

Descendants

References

  • harmonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • harmonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • harmonia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • harmonia”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia
  • harmonia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • harmonia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin harmonia.

Pronunciation

Noun

harmonia f

  1. (uncountable) harmony (agreement or accord)
    Antonym: dysharmonia
  2. (uncountable) harmony (pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds)
    Antonym: dysharmonia
  3. (uncountable, music) harmony, consonance (agreement; absence of discordance)
    Synonym: harmonika
  4. (uncountable, prosody) consonance (form of rhyme having the same consonants but different vowels)
  5. (countable) concertina (musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends)
    Synonyms: harmoszka, koncertyna
  6. (countable, proscribed) accordion (box-shaped musical instrument with means of keys and buttons, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds)
    Synonym: akordeon

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adjectives

Further reading

  • harmonia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • harmonia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • harmonia in PWN's encyclopedia
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Portuguese

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía, joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

harmonia f (plural harmonias)

  1. (uncountable) harmony; agreement; accord
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:harmonia
  2. harmony (pleasing arrangement of sounds)
    Synonyms: melodia, sinfonia
    Antonyms: cacofonia, dissonância, desafinação

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