te

The name of the Cyrillic script letter Т / т.

Noun entertainment, lifestyle

  1. In solfège, the seventh note of a major scale (the note B in the fixed-do system): ti.

    Synonyms: si

  2. In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): ta.

    Synonyms: ta B-flat li

Origin

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.

Forms

tes

Noun Entry 2

  1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Т / т.

Forms

tes