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=Temperament Name Etymologies:= 


===Amity:=== 
Origin: Pre-Middle-Path
Meaning: A restructuring of the words "acute minor third." The ideal generator for Amity is between a minor third and neutral third.

===Ammonite:=== 
Origin: 2011, Ryan Avella, Gene Smith, KEENAN PEPPER
Meaning: KEENAN PEPPER suggested it was a good name of a weird spiral-shaped animal, for a temperament in the porcupine family (like nautilus)

===Avila:=== 
Origin: 2011, Mike Battaglia, Ron Sword, Ryan Avella
Meaning: Originally discovered by Ryan by accident while he was reading the mapping for Mavila temperament incorrectly. It is the original spelling of Ryan's surname.

===Blackwood:=== 
Origin: Middle-Path or Pre-Middle-Path
Meaning: Named after Easley Blackwood's 10-out-of-15 maximally even scale.

===Dicot:=== 
Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 2 equal parts, hence "di-". Not sure why "-cot". "-Cot" has been suggested to originate from 'cotyledon,' the name for the embryo of a plant seed.

Avella: well apparently someone decided that "cot" should refer to the fifth
Avella: it is arbitrary

===Dominant:=== 
Meaning: It's meantone which calls the dominant seventh chord a 4:5:6:7.

===Ennealimmal:=== 
Origin: Gene Smith
Meaning: Ennealimmal has a 1/9-octave period, hence "ennea-".

===Ervsec:=== 
Origin: 1980s?
Meaning: Attributed to the scale discovered by Erv Wilson and George Secor while George was visiting Erv.

===Father:=== 
Origin: 2000s?
Meaning: A combination of the words "fourth" and "third." This is meant to represent the unification of perfect fourths and major thirds in Father temperament.

===Flattone:=== 
Origin: 
Meaning: A variant of meantone in which the whole tone is flatter than in septimal meantone.

===Glacial:=== 
Origin: 2012, Igliashon Jones, Mike Battaglia
Meaning: Glacial sounds like "Igliashon."

===Godzilla:=== 
Named by GENE SMITH after a Japanese fictional monster. Reason unknown.

===Hanson:=== 
Larry Hanson's 34-edo guitar (9\34 generator)

===Hedgehog:=== 
So named because it is in the PORCUPINE family, but different.

===Helmholtz:=== 
So named because Hermann von Helmholtz proposed 1/8-schisma flattened fifths.

===Injera:=== 
Meaning: Named after an Ethiopian flatbread because 26edo represents it well, and the Ethiopian alphabet has 26 consonants.

===Mabila:=== 
Origin: 2011, Gene Smith, Ryan Avella
Meaning: Named after Mavila temperament due to their similar tunings and scale structure.

===Machine:=== 
MIKE BATTAGLIA named it because it sounded like a 4:7:9:11 machine.

===**Magic**:=== 
Origin: Graham Breed?
The "mag-" prefix stands for "major third."

===Mavila:=== 
Origin: 1990s? Kraig Grady
Meaning: Named after the Chopi village of Mavila in Mozambique, known for their use near-equal heptatonic scales. Nobody can agree on how to pronounce this word.

===Meantone:=== 
Origin: Really really old
Meaning: Named so because it maps the major whole tone (9/8) and the minor whole tone (10/9) to the same interval, which is near the average of the two tones in ideal tunings.

===Miracle:=== 
Origin: Joe Monzo
Meaning: Multitude of Integer Ratios Approximated Consistently, Linearly and Evenly

===Mohajira:=== 
Origin: Jacques Dudon
Meaning: means "wandering" in Arabic.

===Mothra:=== 
Named by GENE SMITH after a Japanese fictional monster. Reason unknown.

===Negri ("negripent", "negrisept"):=== 
Origin: 2001, (Paul Erlich?)
Meaning: Named after John Negri's 10-out-of-19 maximally even scale.

===Octacot:=== 
Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 8 equal parts, therefore "octa-".

===Orwell:=== 
Origin: 2001, Gene Smith
Meaning: Named after George Orwell's book 1984, because of the generator of 19\84.

===Pajara:=== 
Origin: 1990s? Paul Erlich
Meaning: Named by Paul Erlich after "Paul, John, and Ara," the three people jamming at his house at some random point in time.

===Porcupine:=== 
Origin: 1999? Herman Miller
Meaning: Named after Herman Miller's Mizarian Porcupine Overture in 15-EDO.

===Rodan:=== 
Named by GENE SMITH after a Japanese fictional monster. Reason unknown.

===Semaphore:=== 
Meaning: semi-fourth, i.e. half of a 4/3

===Sensi: (also 'Sensipent,' 'Sensisept')=== 
Origin: Middle-Path or Pre-Middle-Path
Meaning: A combination of the words "semi-" and "sixth." Or so they say.

===Slendric:=== 
Named after slendro which it resembles very little.

===Superpyth:=== 
OLD
Meaning: fifths are wider than Pythagorean, hence super-Pythagorean or "superpyth"

===Tetracot:=== 
Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 4 equal parts, hence "tetra-". Not sure why "-cot".

===Whitewood:=== 
Meaning: Black keys are to Blackwood as white keys are to Whitewood

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<html><head><title>Temperament Names</title></head><body><!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:&lt;h1&gt; --><h1 id="toc0"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:0 -->Temperament Name Etymologies:</h1>
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:2:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc1"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Amity:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:2 -->Amity:</h3>
 Origin: Pre-Middle-Path<br />
Meaning: A restructuring of the words &quot;acute minor third.&quot; The ideal generator for Amity is between a minor third and neutral third.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:4:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc2"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Ammonite:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:4 -->Ammonite:</h3>
 Origin: 2011, Ryan Avella, Gene Smith, KEENAN PEPPER<br />
Meaning: KEENAN PEPPER suggested it was a good name of a weird spiral-shaped animal, for a temperament in the porcupine family (like nautilus)<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:6:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc3"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Avila:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:6 -->Avila:</h3>
 Origin: 2011, Mike Battaglia, Ron Sword, Ryan Avella<br />
Meaning: Originally discovered by Ryan by accident while he was reading the mapping for Mavila temperament incorrectly. It is the original spelling of Ryan's surname.<br />
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 Origin: Middle-Path or Pre-Middle-Path<br />
Meaning: Named after Easley Blackwood's 10-out-of-15 maximally even scale.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:10:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc5"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Dicot:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:10 -->Dicot:</h3>
 Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 2 equal parts, hence &quot;di-&quot;. Not sure why &quot;-cot&quot;. &quot;-Cot&quot; has been suggested to originate from 'cotyledon,' the name for the embryo of a plant seed.<br />
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Avella: well apparently someone decided that &quot;cot&quot; should refer to the fifth<br />
Avella: it is arbitrary<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:12:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc6"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Dominant:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:12 -->Dominant:</h3>
 Meaning: It's meantone which calls the dominant seventh chord a 4:5:6:7.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:14:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc7"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Ennealimmal:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:14 -->Ennealimmal:</h3>
 Origin: Gene Smith<br />
Meaning: Ennealimmal has a 1/9-octave period, hence &quot;ennea-&quot;.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:16:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc8"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Ervsec:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:16 -->Ervsec:</h3>
 Origin: 1980s?<br />
Meaning: Attributed to the scale discovered by Erv Wilson and George Secor while George was visiting Erv.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:18:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc9"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Father:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:18 -->Father:</h3>
 Origin: 2000s?<br />
Meaning: A combination of the words &quot;fourth&quot; and &quot;third.&quot; This is meant to represent the unification of perfect fourths and major thirds in Father temperament.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:20:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc10"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Flattone:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:20 -->Flattone:</h3>
 Origin: <br />
Meaning: A variant of meantone in which the whole tone is flatter than in septimal meantone.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:22:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc11"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Glacial:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:22 -->Glacial:</h3>
 Origin: 2012, Igliashon Jones, Mike Battaglia<br />
Meaning: Glacial sounds like &quot;Igliashon.&quot;<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:24:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc12"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Godzilla:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:24 -->Godzilla:</h3>
 Named by GENE SMITH after a Japanese fictional monster. Reason unknown.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:26:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc13"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Hanson:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:26 -->Hanson:</h3>
 Larry Hanson's 34-edo guitar (9\34 generator)<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:28:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc14"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Hedgehog:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:28 -->Hedgehog:</h3>
 So named because it is in the PORCUPINE family, but different.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:30:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc15"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Helmholtz:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:30 -->Helmholtz:</h3>
 So named because Hermann von Helmholtz proposed 1/8-schisma flattened fifths.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:32:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc16"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Injera:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:32 -->Injera:</h3>
 Meaning: Named after an Ethiopian flatbread because 26edo represents it well, and the Ethiopian alphabet has 26 consonants.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:34:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc17"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Mabila:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:34 -->Mabila:</h3>
 Origin: 2011, Gene Smith, Ryan Avella<br />
Meaning: Named after Mavila temperament due to their similar tunings and scale structure.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:36:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc18"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Machine:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:36 -->Machine:</h3>
 MIKE BATTAGLIA named it because it sounded like a 4:7:9:11 machine.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:38:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc19"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Magic:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:38 --><strong>Magic</strong>:</h3>
 Origin: Graham Breed?<br />
The &quot;mag-&quot; prefix stands for &quot;major third.&quot;<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:40:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc20"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Mavila:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:40 -->Mavila:</h3>
 Origin: 1990s? Kraig Grady<br />
Meaning: Named after the Chopi village of Mavila in Mozambique, known for their use near-equal heptatonic scales. Nobody can agree on how to pronounce this word.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:42:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc21"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Meantone:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:42 -->Meantone:</h3>
 Origin: Really really old<br />
Meaning: Named so because it maps the major whole tone (9/8) and the minor whole tone (10/9) to the same interval, which is near the average of the two tones in ideal tunings.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:44:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc22"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Miracle:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:44 -->Miracle:</h3>
 Origin: Joe Monzo<br />
Meaning: Multitude of Integer Ratios Approximated Consistently, Linearly and Evenly<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:46:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc23"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Mohajira:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:46 -->Mohajira:</h3>
 Origin: Jacques Dudon<br />
Meaning: means &quot;wandering&quot; in Arabic.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:48:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc24"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Mothra:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:48 -->Mothra:</h3>
 Named by GENE SMITH after a Japanese fictional monster. Reason unknown.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:50:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc25"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Negri (&quot;negripent&quot;, &quot;negrisept&quot;):"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:50 -->Negri (&quot;negripent&quot;, &quot;negrisept&quot;):</h3>
 Origin: 2001, (Paul Erlich?)<br />
Meaning: Named after John Negri's 10-out-of-19 maximally even scale.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:52:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc26"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Octacot:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:52 -->Octacot:</h3>
 Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 8 equal parts, therefore &quot;octa-&quot;.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:54:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc27"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Orwell:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:54 -->Orwell:</h3>
 Origin: 2001, Gene Smith<br />
Meaning: Named after George Orwell's book 1984, because of the generator of 19\84.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:56:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc28"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Pajara:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:56 -->Pajara:</h3>
 Origin: 1990s? Paul Erlich<br />
Meaning: Named by Paul Erlich after &quot;Paul, John, and Ara,&quot; the three people jamming at his house at some random point in time.<br />
<br />
<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:58:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc29"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Porcupine:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:58 -->Porcupine:</h3>
 Origin: 1999? Herman Miller<br />
Meaning: Named after Herman Miller's Mizarian Porcupine Overture in 15-EDO.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:60:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc30"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Rodan:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:60 -->Rodan:</h3>
 Named by GENE SMITH after a Japanese fictional monster. Reason unknown.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:62:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc31"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Semaphore:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:62 -->Semaphore:</h3>
 Meaning: semi-fourth, i.e. half of a 4/3<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:64:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc32"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Sensi: (also 'Sensipent,' 'Sensisept')"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:64 -->Sensi: (also 'Sensipent,' 'Sensisept')</h3>
 Origin: Middle-Path or Pre-Middle-Path<br />
Meaning: A combination of the words &quot;semi-&quot; and &quot;sixth.&quot; Or so they say.<br />
<br />
<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:66:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc33"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Slendric:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:66 -->Slendric:</h3>
 Named after slendro which it resembles very little.<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:68:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc34"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Superpyth:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:68 -->Superpyth:</h3>
 OLD<br />
Meaning: fifths are wider than Pythagorean, hence super-Pythagorean or &quot;superpyth&quot;<br />
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:70:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc35"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Tetracot:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:70 -->Tetracot:</h3>
 Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 4 equal parts, hence &quot;tetra-&quot;. Not sure why &quot;-cot&quot;.<br />
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 Meaning: Black keys are to Blackwood as white keys are to Whitewood</body></html>