Melodie

See also: Mélodie, melodie, melodię, and mélodie

English

Proper noun

Melodie

1. A female given name from English, of rather rare usage, variant of Melody.

German

Alternative forms

• Melodei (poetic, otherwise obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German melodīe, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā). Since the 16th century, the inherited form Melodei was increasingly readapted to the Latin and to French mélodie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meloˈdiː/, [me.loˈdiː], [mə-], [ˌmɛ-], [ˌmeː-]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

Melodie f (genitive Melodie, plural Melodien)

1. melody, tune (sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase)

   Synonym: Weise

Declension

Declension of Melodie [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Melodie	die	Melodien
genitive	einer	der	Melodie	der	Melodien
dative	einer	der	Melodie	den	Melodien
accusative	eine	die	Melodie	die	Melodien

Hyponyms

• Erkennungsmelodie
• Hauptmelodie
• Satzmelodie
• Schicksalsmelodie
• Sprachmelodie
• Titelmelodie
• Tonfolge
• Traummelodie
• Wortmelodie

Derived terms

• Melodieabfolge
• Melodieerkennung
• Melodiefluss
• Melodiespiel
• Melodiestimme
• Melodiewechsel

Related terms

• Melodik
• melodiös
• melodisch

References

• “Melodie”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Melodie” in Duden online
• “Melodie” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Further reading

• Melodie on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de