hypate (English, noun)
expansion: hypate (plural hypates)
Senses:
qualifier: musical pitch
glosses: In ancient musical theory, the lowest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth below the mese, with two movable notes between them, the parhypate (lower in pitch) and the lichanos (higher in pitch).
Forms:
form: hypates
tags: plural