Translation
melody, tune
Word origin
From Greek melōidia, made of melos ('tune') and aoidē ('song'). The second half is the same word as English ode, which is also hiding at the end of comedy, tragedy and parody.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- melos + aoidē
- English cognates
- melody, ode, parody
Examples
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I do not remember the words, but the tune stays with me.
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She played a simple melody on the violin.
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Everybody knows that tune.
The seam a learner sees is the wrong one. looks like it ends in odio, which is a real Esperanto word meaning hatred, and a tune made of hate would be a memorable thing. It is not there. The Greek join falls in a different place, between mel- (tune) and -odi- (song), and odio comes from an unrelated Latin root, odium. The adjective is melodia, and melodia is a pleasant one.
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