Etymology

devil in music

Today it means: The tritone. Full definition →

Latin diabolus
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  1. Latin · calque ofdiabolus
  2. English todaydevil in music

Calque of Latin diabolus in mūsicā.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.