te

Pronunciation: /tiː/

The English word “te” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

In solfège, the seventh note of a major scale (the note B in the fixed-do system): ti.
In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): ta.
The name of the Cyrillic script letter Т / т.

Etymology

Sense 1: Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become te and later ti. Sense 2: The vowel of ti then changed to 'e' to signify a flattened note.

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