harmonia

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

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 ¹⁄₁, ¹⁴⁄₁₁, ¹⁴⁄₁₀, and ²⁄₁. […] 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.

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

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harmonia f (plural harmonies)

1. harmony

• harmònic

• “harmonia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “harmonia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “harmonia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “harmonia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: har‧mo‧ni‧a

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

1. harmonious

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑrmoniɑ/,
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): har‧mo‧nia

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

harmonia

1. harmony

• “harmonia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

harmonia

1. partitive singular of harmoni

• harmiona

harmonia f (plural harmonias, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of harmonía

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

From Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /harˈmo.ni.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈmo.ni.a/,

harmonia f (genitive harmoniae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• “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

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

harmonia

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Learned borrowing from Latin harmonia.

• IPA^(key): /xarˈmɔɲ.ja/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɲja
• Syllabification: har‧mon‧ia
• Homophone: Harmonia

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

• 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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harmonia

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

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

• (antonym(s) of “accord”): See Thesaurus:harmonia

• harmonia consonantal
• harmonia vocálica

• “harmonia” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “harmonia”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “harmonia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024