mi

Betekenis (Engels)

A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.

Sinonieme

mile

nautical mile

naut mi

stat mi

statute mile

Admiralty mile

land mile

international mile

knot

🪢

air mile

geographical mile

international nautical mile

midnight

mil

E

E

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/miː/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English mi (“third degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian mi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin mīra (“miracles; the miraculous”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.