different between hyperpigmentation vs melisma

English

Etymology

hyper- +? pigmentation

Noun

hyperpigmentation (usually uncountable, plural hyperpigmentations)

1. The darkening of an area of skin or nails, caused by increased melanin

Related terms

• hyperpigmentary

Translations

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (mélisma, “song”), from ?????? (melíz?, “(I) sing, modulate; (I) celebrate in song”), from ????? (mélos, “song, tune, melody; limb, part; member”)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /m??l?zm?/

Noun

melisma (plural melismas or melismata)

1. (music) A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in Gregorian chant.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 38:

     At the top of the hill in the archway of the main house, an eyeless old man sat on a bucket, scratching at a two-stringed gourd, warbling weird melismas on a madman's text.

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     A choir sang one of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. The mournful melisma accompanied the slow procession to the palace built by Herod the Great, at present untenanted.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:melisma.

Translations

References

• melisma in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• lammies

Czech

Noun

melisma n

1. (music) melisma

Derived terms

• melismatický
• melismaticky
• melismatika

Further reading

• melisma in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• melisma in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Portuguese

Noun

melisma m (plural melismas)

1. (music) melisma (a passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text)

Spanish

Noun

melisma m (plural melismas)

1. melisma