antiphon

See also: Antiphon

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French antiphone or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin antiphōna, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἀντίφωνα (antíphōna, “responses, musical accords”), neuter plural substantive of ἀντίφωνος (antíphōnos, “concordant”) from ἀντί (antí, “in return”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). Compare anthem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæntɪfən/

Noun

antiphon (plural antiphons)

1. A devotional piece of music sung responsively.
2. 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.’

Derived terms

• antiphonal
• antiphonary
• antiphone
• antiphoner
• antiphonic
• antiphonical
• antiphony

 

Translations

devotional piece of music sung responsively

• Catalan: antífona f
• Finnish: antifoni
• Greek: αντίφωνο (el) n (antífono)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: ainteafan m
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• Italian: antifona (it) f
• Middle English: anteme
• Portuguese: antífona (pt) f
• Spanish: antífona (es) f
• Swedish: antifoni (sv) c, antifon (sv) c

response or reply

• Finnish: vastaus (fi), vastarepliikki
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Further reading

• antiphon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia