Locrian

Pertaining to the ancient Greek region of Locris.

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to the ancient Greek region of Locris.
  2. Designating an ancient Greek mode, of uncertain detail.
    • 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 - 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
  3. Designating a minor scale with the second and fifth scale degrees lowered by a semitone.

Origin

From Latin Locris + -an.

Derived

Hypolocrian super-Locrian