nonuple
English
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| Cardinal: nine Ordinal: ninth Latinate ordinal: nonary Adverbial: nine times Multiplier: ninefold Latinate multiplier: nonuple Group collective: ninesome Multipart collective: nonuplet Greek or Latinate collective: ennead, nonad Greek collective prefix: ennea- Latinate collective prefix: nona- Fractional: ninth Elemental: nonuplet Greek prefix: enato- Number of musicians: nonet Number of years: novennium | ||
Noun
nonuple (plural nonuples)
- A ninefold amount or number.
- 1807, John Holden, An Essay towards a Rational System of Music, page 78:
- The beginning of the measure is always at I; and in the nonuple of crotchets, each single pulse repesents a quaver, and the single pair a crotchet; and here the measure has three motions, like slow triple time.
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French
| ← 8 | 9 | 10 → |
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| Cardinal: neuf Ordinal: neuvième Ordinal abbreviation: 9e, (now nonstandard) 9ème Multiplier: nonuple | ||
| French Wikipedia article on 9 | ||
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Noun
nonuple m (plural nonuples)
Further reading
- “nonuple”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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