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melodie
melody /me.loˈdi.e/
noun#2030 most common
Also: tune, song
Example sentences
Îmi place această melodie.
I like this melody.
Ea cântă o melodie veche.
She sings an old melody.
Am auzit o melodie frumoasă la radio azi-dimineață.
I heard a beautiful melody on the radio this morning.
Compozitorul a scris melodia în doar câteva ore.
The composer wrote the melody in just a few hours.
Melodiile populare românești păstrează un ritm specific zonei din care provin.
Romanian folk melodies keep a rhythm specific to the region they come from.
Complexitatea armonică a melodiei a fost analizată îndelung de criticii muzicali.
The harmonic complexity of the melody was analyzed at length by music critics.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | melodie | melodii |
| Genitive | melodiei | melodiilor |
| Accusative | melodie | melodii |
| Vocative | melodie | melodii |
Word family
melodiosmelodious
melodicmelodic
a melodizato set to music
melodicitatemelodiousness
melomanmusic lover
Etymology
Melodie entered Romanian from French mélodie. French took the word from Late Latin melodia, which came from Greek melōidía, a compound of melos, meaning song or tune, and aeidein, meaning to sing. The word spread across most European languages through the same French and Latin route.
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