antiphon
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[edit] Etymology
From French antiphone or Medieval Latin antiphōna, from Ancient Greek ἀντίφωνα (antiphona, “responses, musical accords”), from ἀντί (anti, “in return”) + -φωνος (-phonos, “sounding”), from φωνή (phone, “vocal noise”). Compare anthem.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈæntɪfən/
[edit] Noun
antiphon (plural antiphons)
- A devotional piece of music sung responsively.
- A response or reply.
- 2007, Barbara Everett, ‘Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances’, in the London Review of Books 29:6, page 20:
- The Clown […] says: ‘And so we wept; and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed’; to which his father, the Shepherd, adds the comfortable antiphon, ‘We may live, son, to shed many more.’
- 2007, Barbara Everett, ‘Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances’, in the London Review of Books 29:6, page 20:
