Locrian

English

Etymology

From Latin Locris + -an.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈləʊkɹiən/, /ˈlɒkɹiən/

Adjective

Locrian (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the ancient Greek region of Locris.
2. (music) Designating an ancient Greek mode, of uncertain detail.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     scattered piano keys (all white, an octave on B to be exact—or H, in the German nomenclature—the notes of the rejected Locrian mode

3. (music) Designating a minor scale with the second and fifth scale degrees lowered by a semitone.

Translations

pertaining to the ancient Greek region of Locris

• Hungarian: lokriszi

music: designating an ancient Greek mode, of uncertain detail

music: designating a minor scale with the second and fifth scale degrees lowered by a semitone

• Hungarian: lokriszi

Anagrams

• Clarion, acrinol, alicorn, carolin, clairon, clarino, clarion