Etymology

trichord

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Today it means: any set of three different pitch classes Full definition →

English chord ← Latin tri- ← Proto-Italic *tri-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*tréyes
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tri-
  3. Proto-Italic*tri-
  4. Latintri-
  5. Englishtri-
  6. Englishchord
  7. English todaytrichord

From tri- + chord.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.