Word.ws English Dictionary

paranete

paranete noun: in Ancient Greek musical theory, the higher-pitched of the two movable notes in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, pitched higher than the trite and lower than the nete.

Noun

paranete (plural paranetes)

  1. (musical pitch) In Ancient Greek musical theory, the higher-pitched of the two movable notes in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, pitched higher than the trite and lower than the nete.

Forms of paranete

pluralparanetes

Origin of paranete

Unadapted borrowing from Latin paranētē, from Ancient Greek παρανήτη (paranḗtē, literally “next to the lowest [string]”). The nete was "lowest" in the sense of being the farthest from the player and physically below the other strings, but was the highest in pitch. Compare the high E string in a modern guitar, which is farthest from the player.

Questions about paranete

What does paranete mean?
Paranete means in Ancient Greek musical theory, the higher-pitched of the two movable notes in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, pitched higher than the trite and lower than the nete.
What part of speech is paranete?
Paranete is a noun.
What is the plural of paranete?
The plural of paranete is paranetes.

Words near paranete in the dictionary

  1. paraneopteran
  2. paraneopterans
  3. paranephric
  4. paranephritis
  5. paranesthesia
  6. paranete
  7. paraneural
  8. paraneuron
  9. paraneuronal
  10. paraneurons
  11. paranews

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: paranete (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “paranete.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/paranete. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.