octave

英 ['ɒktɪv] 美 ['ɑktɪv]

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※ 提供单词"octave"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

octave 八度

音乐术语，来自octa-,八，-ave,名词后缀。

octave (n.): c. 1300, utaves (plural, via Anglo-French from popular Old French form oitieve, otaves), reformed in early 15c., from Medieval Latin octava, from Latin octava dies "eighth day," fem. of octavus "eighth," from octo (see eight). Originally "period of eight days after a festival," also "eighth day after a festival" (counting both days, by inclusive reckoning, thus if the festival was on a Sunday, the octaves would be the following Sunday). Verse sense of "stanza of eight lines" is from 1580s; musical sense of "note eight diatonic degrees above (or below) a given note" is first recorded 1650s, from Latin octava (pars) "eighth part." Formerly English eighth was used in this sense (mid-15c.)

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3. European music happens to use a scale of eight notes, hence the use of the term octave.: 欧洲音乐凑巧采用了八音音阶，“八度”一词就由此而来。