The corpus record

ἡμι-τόνιον

emitonion · τό

semitone, half the skein, bundle of gut

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Where it lives

Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ἡμι-τόνιον · hēmi-tonion — LSJ

semitone

semitone, Philol. 6, Aristox. Harm. p.21 M., al., D.H. Comp. 11, Arr. Epict. 2.11.2, etc.

II half the skein, bundle of gut

half the skein or bundle of gut in a torsion-engine, Ph. Bel. 68.46, Hero Aut. 2.6.

2 one of the two frames containing the τόνος

one of the two frames containing the τόνος in such an engine, Id. Bel. 90.4.

In the wild

ἡμιτονίου · hēmitoniou Epictetus, Discourses 2.11 (DIORISIS sentence 2416)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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