Hypoaeolian mode
noun
Hy·po·aeolian mode
: a Renaissance church mode represented as a scale from E to E on the white keys of the piano with C as its tenor (see tenor entry 1 sense 2a)and A as its final (see final entry 2 sense c) see church mode illustration
Word History
Etymology
Late Latin hypoaeolius hypoaeolian (from—assumed—Greek hypoaiolios, from Greek hypo- + aiolios Aeolian, from Aiolis Aeolis, ancient country in Asia Minor) + English -an
First Known Use
1760, in the meaning defined above
- on the one hand
- on the open market
- on the order of
- on the other hand
- on the outs
- on the outside
- on the park
- on the part of
- on the part of (someone)
- on the part of one
- on the part of someone
- on the phone
- on the pill
- on the piss
- on the plus side
- on the point of
- on the point of doing something
- on the premises
- on the presumption that
- on the pretense of
- on the printed page
- on the prowl
- on the q.t.
- on the qui vive
- on the quiet