mi

noun — 2 senses

mi

noun

/miː/

Etymology From Glover's solmization, from Middle English mi (“third degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian mi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin mīra (“miracles; the miraculous”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

1

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.

2

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Sometimes syllable for the seventh.

Derived terms
do-re-mi
Related terms
list of other syllables at solfège, sol-fa

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