contrapunctus

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English

Noun

contrapunctus (plural contrapuncti)

  1. (music) A fugue.
    • 2018, Guerino Mazzola, The Topos of Music II: Performance: Theory, Software, and Case Studies:
      The ambitus of the metrical weight profile increases towards the middle of the contrapunctus; minimal local meter length is 2.

Latin

Noun

contrāpūnctus m (genitive contrāpūnctī); second declension

  1. counterpoint

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative contrāpūnctus contrāpūnctī
Genitive contrāpūnctī contrāpūnctōrum
Dative contrāpūnctō contrāpūnctīs
Accusative contrāpūnctum contrāpūnctōs
Ablative contrāpūnctō contrāpūnctīs
Vocative contrāpūncte contrāpūnctī