Etymology

dodecaphonist

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Today it means: A practitioner or proponent of dodecaphony, i.e. use of the dodecaphonic musical scale, which has twelve tones per octave Full definition →

Ancient Greek δώδεκα
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromδώδεκα“twelve”
  2. English todaydodecaphonist

International word formed circa 1950 from Ancient Greek δώδεκα (dṓdeka, “twelve”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”) + -ist, recorded in English since 1953, presumably modeled on German Dodekaphonist.

Words from the same roots

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