LIMMA


Meaning of LIMMA in English

ˈlimə noun

( plural limma·ta -əd.ə)

Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek leimma Pythagorean semitone, remnant, from leipein to leave — more at loan

1. in ancient Greek music : a semitone in the Pythagorean scale that is less than half a whole step and is designated as the difference between a perfect fourth and two whole steps or 256/243 — called also diesis

2.

[Late Greek leimma, from Greek]

: a pause in Greek verse equivalent to one mora — symbol Λ, λ, ∧

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