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== Etymology ==

The term ''tritave'' was coined by [[John Pierce]]<ref>[https://www.huygens-fokker.org/bpsite/intervals.html ''The Bohlen-Pierce Site: BP Interval Properties'']</ref>. It was derived from the word ''octave'' by replacing the perceived prefix ''octo-'' (eight, for the eighth degree of the diatonic scale) by ''tri-'' (three, for 3/1). However, the ''oct'' in ''octave'' is not a prefix, but part of the single-morpheme word derived from Latin [[Wiktionary:octavus #Latin|''octavus'']] ("eighth"). In this sense, ''tritave'' is more of a contraction of ''tri-'' and ''octave'' than anything else.

The term ''tritave'' was coined by [[John Pierce]]<ref>[https://www.huygens-fokker.org/bpsite/intervals.html ''The Bohlen-Pierce Site: BP Interval Properties'']</ref>. It was derived from the word ''octave'' by replacing the perceived prefix ''octo-'' (eight, for the eighth degree of the diatonic scale) by ''tri-'' (three, for 3/1). However, the ''oct'' in ''octave'' is not a prefix, but part of the single-morpheme word derived from Latin [[Wiktionary:octavus #Latin|''octavus'']] ("eighth"). In this sense, ''tritave'' is more of a contraction of ''tri-'' and ''octave'' than anything else. As such, the term usually refers to 3/1 as an interval of equivalence; in other contexts, it is more often called the perfect twelfth (after the 12th degree of the diatonic scale).

''Triple'' is a proposed term which relates itself to the ancient Greek concept of [[harmonic|multiples]]. It also fixes the problem of using part of the word ''octave''.

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 == Etymology ==
-The term ''tritave'' was coined by [[John Pierce]]<ref>[https://www.huygens-fokker.org/bpsite/intervals.html ''The Bohlen-Pierce Site: BP Interval Properties'']</ref>. It was derived from the word ''octave'' by replacing the perceived prefix ''octo-'' (eight, for the eighth degree of the diatonic scale) by ''tri-'' (three, for 3/1). However, the ''oct'' in ''octave'' is not a prefix, but part of the single-morpheme word derived from Latin [[Wiktionary:octavus #Latin|''octavus'']] ("eighth"). In this sense, ''tritave'' is more of a contraction of ''tri-'' and ''octave'' than anything else.
+The term ''tritave'' was coined by [[John Pierce]]<ref>[https://www.huygens-fokker.org/bpsite/intervals.html ''The Bohlen-Pierce Site: BP Interval Properties'']</ref>. It was derived from the word ''octave'' by replacing the perceived prefix ''octo-'' (eight, for the eighth degree of the diatonic scale) by ''tri-'' (three, for 3/1). However, the ''oct'' in ''octave'' is not a prefix, but part of the single-morpheme word derived from Latin [[Wiktionary:octavus #Latin|''octavus'']] ("eighth"). In this sense, ''tritave'' is more of a contraction of ''tri-'' and ''octave'' than anything else. As such, the term usually refers to 3/1 as an interval of equivalence; in other contexts, it is more often called the perfect twelfth (after the 12th degree of the diatonic scale).
 ''Triple'' is a proposed term which relates itself to the ancient Greek concept of [[harmonic|multiples]]. It also fixes the problem of using part of the word ''octave''.