ἡμιτόνιον
μὴ τὴν ὄψιν καλλωπίζου, ἀλλ' ἐν τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασιν ἴσθι καλός → Don't beautify your face, but be beautiful in your habits (Thales, in Diog. Laertius 1.37)
English (LSJ)
τό,
A semitone, Philol.6, Aristox.Harm.p.21 M., al., D.H.Comp.11, Arr. Epict.2.11.2, etc.
II half the skein or bundle of gut in a torsion engine, Ph.Bel.68.46, HeroAut.2.6.
2 one of the two frames containing the τόνος in such an engine, Id.Bel.90.4.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1170] τό, halber Ton, Music. – Auch ein Tau, Sp.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ου (τό) :
t. de mus. demi-ton.
Étymologie: ἡμι-, τόνος.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἡμιτόνιον: τό, ἥμισυς τόνος, Πλούτ. 2. 1020Ε κἑξ.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἡμῐτόνιον: τό муз. полутон Plut.
Translations
semitone
Basque: tonuerdi; Catalan: semitò; Chinese Cantonese: 半音; Mandarin: 半音; Czech: půltón; Danish: halvtone; English: semitone, halftone, half step; Faroese: hálvtóni; Finnish: puoliaskel, puolisävelaskel; French: demi-ton; German: Halbton; Greek: ημιτόνιο; Ancient Greek: δίεσις, ἡμιτόνιον; Hungarian: félhang; Icelandic: hálftónn; Italian: semitono; Japanese: 半音; Khmer: ជំហានពាក់កណ្តាល; Maori: waehaurua; Norwegian Bokmål: halvtone; Nynorsk: halvtone; Persian: نیمپرده sg; Polish: półton; Portuguese: semitom, meio-tom; Romanian: semiton; Russian: полутон; Slovak: poltón; Slovene: polton; Spanish: semitono; Welsh: hanner tôn
