polytonicadj.

Brit.

/ˌpɒlɪˈtɒnɪk/, U.S.

/ˌpɑliˈtɑnɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: poly- comb. form, tonic adj.

Etymology: < poly- comb. form + tonic adj., after polytone n. Compare earlier monotonic adj.

1. Music. Using or having several musical tones; polytonal.

ΚΠ

1875 Ladies' Repository Dec. 535/1 Widening the instrumental score and loading the harmony with more polytonic repetition of octaves.

1922 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 226 On the authority of the musical terms polyphonic and polytonic, I have ventured to coin and use the word polymetrical.

1961 J. Blades in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages 342 The ingenious steel drums recently introduced in Trinidad are polytonic gongs... Each sector is tuned to a different note.

1990 Sunday Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. The Times music critic..wrote about the Beatles' polytonic clusters and Aeolian cadences.

2. Of a language: using or having several vocal tones. Cf. tonic adj. 4b.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > style by tonal organization > specific

enharmonian1603

enharmonic1603

harmonical1603

enharmoniac1681

polytonic1892

quarter-tonal1912

atonal1922

polytonal1923

pandiatonic1937

tritonal1944

serial1947

dodecaphonic1950

pantonal1958

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > intonation > of varied pitch

polytonic1892

1892 Census of India 1891 IX. viii. 167 The Tai language, of which there are numerous dialects, is essentially a Polytonic language.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet i. vi. 99 So characteristic are the tones in the Tibeto-Chinese languages, that some scholars have suggested to term them ‘polytonic’.

1998 Euralex '98 Proc. I. iii. 285 To return back to Chinese and other polytonic languages, one must take into account that it is the syllable that is the dominant unit there.

3. Designating a system of orthography used to write Greek, incorporating acute, grave and circumflex accent marks, in standard use since the 3rd century b.c. Cf. monotonic adj. 3.The polytonic system was intended to represent the distinct pitch accents of ancient Greek. These accents gave way in speech to a single stress accent in medieval and modern Greek, but the three accent marks remained standard in writing until they were replaced by the monotonic system as the official form of written Greek in 1982.

ΚΠ

1986 Bull. (Mod. Greek Stud. Assoc.) Fall 29 A polytonic system for Modern Greek word-processing.

1987 G. E. Kanarakis Greek Voices in Austral. Introd. 6 Writers who used to write in the polytonic system now follow the monotonic.

2004 Brit. School at Athens Stud. 12 17 Polytonic accentuation, breathings, and iota subscripts are shown for citations in classical Greek.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	polytonic
释义	polytonicadj. Brit. /ˌpɒlɪˈtɒnɪk/, U.S. /ˌpɑliˈtɑnɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: poly- comb. form, tonic adj. Etymology: < poly- comb. form + tonic adj., after polytone n. Compare earlier monotonic adj. 1. Music. Using or having several musical tones; polytonal. ΚΠ 1875 Ladies' Repository Dec. 535/1 Widening the instrumental score and loading the harmony with more polytonic repetition of octaves. 1922 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 226 On the authority of the musical terms polyphonic and polytonic, I have ventured to coin and use the word polymetrical. 1961 J. Blades in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages 342 The ingenious steel drums recently introduced in Trinidad are polytonic gongs... Each sector is tuned to a different note. 1990 Sunday Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. The Times music critic..wrote about the Beatles' polytonic clusters and Aeolian cadences. 2. Of a language: using or having several vocal tones. Cf. tonic adj. 4b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > style by tonal organization > specific enharmonian1603 enharmonic1603 harmonical1603 enharmoniac1681 polytonic1892 quarter-tonal1912 atonal1922 polytonal1923 pandiatonic1937 tritonal1944 serial1947 dodecaphonic1950 pantonal1958 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > intonation > of varied pitch polytonic1892 1892 Census of India 1891 IX. viii. 167 The Tai language, of which there are numerous dialects, is essentially a Polytonic language. 1948 D. Diringer Alphabet i. vi. 99 So characteristic are the tones in the Tibeto-Chinese languages, that some scholars have suggested to term them ‘polytonic’. 1998 Euralex '98 Proc. I. iii. 285 To return back to Chinese and other polytonic languages, one must take into account that it is the syllable that is the dominant unit there. 3. Designating a system of orthography used to write Greek, incorporating acute, grave and circumflex accent marks, in standard use since the 3rd century b.c. Cf. monotonic adj. 3.The polytonic system was intended to represent the distinct pitch accents of ancient Greek. These accents gave way in speech to a single stress accent in medieval and modern Greek, but the three accent marks remained standard in writing until they were replaced by the monotonic system as the official form of written Greek in 1982. ΚΠ 1986 Bull. (Mod. Greek Stud. Assoc.) Fall 29 A polytonic system for Modern Greek word-processing. 1987 G. E. Kanarakis Greek Voices in Austral. Introd. 6 Writers who used to write in the polytonic system now follow the monotonic. 2004 Brit. School at Athens Stud. 12 17 Polytonic accentuation, breathings, and iota subscripts are shown for citations in classical Greek. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1875
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