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Etymology
From French antiphone or mediaeval Latin antiphona, from Greek ἀντίφωνα ‘responses, musical accords’, from ἀντί ‘in return’ + -φωνος ‘sounding’, from φωνή ‘vocal noise’. Compare anthem.

Pronunciation
IPA|/ˈæntɪfən/

Noun
en-noun

1. A devotional piece of music sung responsively.
2. A response or reply.

#*2007: 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.’ — Barbara Everett, ‘Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances’, London Review of Books 29:6, p. 20

Derived terms
antiphonic

Category:Greek derivations

fr:antiphon
io:antiphon
vi:antiphon

• 2007-10-28 20:25 - Goldenrowley - /* Noun */ derived term

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