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- Ancient Greek · derived fromδεκάχορδος“ten-stringed”
- English todaydecachord
From Ancient Greek δεκάχορδος (dekákhordos, “ten-stringed”), from δέκα (déka, “ten”) + χορδή (khordḗ, “guts, string of a musical instrument”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.