nete

See also: Nete, néte, and nɛtɛ

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin nētē, from Ancient Greek νήτη (nḗtē, literally “lowest [string]”). It was "lowest" in the sense of being the farthest from the player and physically below the other strings, but was the highest in pitch. Compare the high E string in a modern guitar, which is farthest from the player.

Noun

nete (plural netes)

1. (musical pitch) In Ancient Greek musical theory, the highest-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth above the paramese, with two movable notes between them, the trite (lower in pitch) and the paranete (higher in pitch). The paramese was higher-pitched than the mese (the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 9:8.

Usage notes

• The strings/pitches from lowest-pitched (nearest the player) to highest-pitched (farthest from the player) were the hypate, parhypate, lichanos, mese, paramese, trite, paranete and nete, grouped into two tetrachords, the nearer one stretching from hypate to mese and the farther one stretching from paramese to nete. The outer two notes in a tetrachord were fixed in pitch but the inner two notes could be tuned differently.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnete/
• Rhymes: -ete
• Hyphenation: ne‧te

Adverb

nete

1. neatly

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈneː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛː.te]

Verb

nēte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of neō

Participle

nēte

1. vocative masculine singular of nētus

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νήτη (nḗtē), from νεάτη (neátē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈneː.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛː.te]

Noun

nētē f (genitive nētēs); first declension

1. the highest note of a musical instrument
2. the highest note of a tetrachord

Declension

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē).

	singular	plural
nominative	nētē	nētae
genitive	nētēs	nētārum
dative	nētae	nētīs
accusative	nētēn	nētās
ablative	nētē	nētīs
vocative	nētē	nētae

References

• “nete”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nete”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nete”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎

Turkish

Noun

nete

1. dative singular of net