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noun (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant
originFrom Italian mediante, from Latin mediānt- (“being in the middle”), present active participle of mediō (“to be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðios, from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”).
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