The corpus record — Latin

chroma

chroma · n

a chromatic scale

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Where it lives

De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k

What it meant

chrōma — Lewis & Short

chrōma, ătis (ătŏs, n., = xrw=ma (a color), in music,

Vitr. 5, 5),

I a chromatic scale (a species of harmony in which the tones of the tetrachord measure two and a half tones, as a half, again a semitone, and then a tone and a half follow each other), Vitr. 5, 4, 3; cf. Dict. of Antiq. p. 645.—Hence, chrōmătĭcē, ēs, f., the science of this species of harmony, Vitr. 5, 5; and: chrō-mătĭcus, a, um, adj., chromatic: genus, the same, Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 4 fin.

In the wild

chroma Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.4.6
chroma Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.4.6
chroma Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.4.3
chromati Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.4.3

Where it came from

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