Besides that Cardan pleases himself with that Antiphonie in Nature, that as the Ostrich being a Bird, yet never shes in the Aire, so this Bird of Paradise should alwayes be in the Aire, and never rest upon the Earth.
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Antiphony
Synonyms for "antiphony" (25 found)
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6 translations across 6 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- antífona noun (singing by a choir split in two parts or a piece sung in this manner)
French
1 entries- antienne noun (singing by a choir split in two parts or a piece sung in this manner)
Italian
1 entries- antifonia noun (singing by a choir split in two parts or a piece sung in this manner)
Portuguese
1 entries- antifonia noun (singing by a choir split in two parts or a piece sung in this manner)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- antifona noun (singing by a choir split in two parts or a piece sung in this manner)
Swedish
1 entries- antifon noun (singing by a choir split in two parts or a piece sung in this manner)
Sample sentences
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Still another phase of language which interests Professor Orr is that of vowel antiphony in the functional development of language; e.g. the “front-back” vowel sequence (tittle-tattle, et patati et patata, etc.).
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Roman Jakobson gives evidence to show how language uses ‘antiphony’ or vowel opposition in pairs of words with opposite meanings: ‘gleam’ and ‘gloom’, ‘here’ and ‘there’, or in French ‘petit’ and ‘grand’.
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The various types of reduplication […] include full reduplication (tum-tum), […] vowel antiphony (flip-flop, criss-cross) […]
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