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mensural

men·su·ral
M m

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [men-sher-uh l, -ser-]
    • /ˈmɛn ʃər əl, -sər-/
    • /ˈmen.sjʊ.rəl/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [men-sher-uh l, -ser-]
    • /ˈmɛn ʃər əl, -sər-/

Definitions of mensural word

  • adjective mensural pertaining to measure. 1
  • noun mensural Of or involving measuring. 1
  • adjective mensural of or involving measure 0
  • adjective mensural of or relating to music in which notes have fixed values in relation to each other 0
  • adjective mensural of measure 0
  • adjective mensural designating or of polyphonic music in which each note is given a strictly determined value 0
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Origin of mensural

First appearance:

before 1600
One of the 39% oldest English words
1600-10; < Late Latin mēnsūrālis, equivalent to Latin mēnsūr(a) measure + -ālis -al1

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Parts of speech for Mensural

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Mensural

mensural popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 65% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

mensural usage trend in Literature

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Related words

  • breve

    an accent, (˘), placed over a vowel to indicate that it is of short duration or is pronounced in a specified way

  • discant

    Also, discantus [dis-kan-tuh s] /dɪsˈkæn təs/ (Show IPA). Music. a 13th-century polyphonic style with strict mensural meter in all the voice parts, in contrast to the metrically free organum of the period.

  • longa

    the second longest note in medieval mensural notation.

  • mensural music

    polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.

  • mensural notation

    a system of musical notation of the 13th to the late 16th centuries, marked by the use of note symbols such as the longa and brevis, the absence of bar lines and ties, and the equivalence in value of one note to either two or three of the next smaller degree.

  • prolation

    the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
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