auletic
English
Etymology
Latin auleticus, from Ancient Greek.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɔːˈlɛtɪk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɔˈlɛtɪk/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ɑˈlɛtɪk/
- Rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Adjective
auletic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to a musical pipe or piper.
- 2018, Sean Alexander Gurd, Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece:
- The tale of Midas's success would, in this case, be a kind of expression in extremis of the auletic nome's auditory poetics
References
- “auletic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.