Lexicon:Hemi-demi; hemi-demi-semi

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Citation: hemi-demi; hemi-demi-semi
Language: Greek, Latin
References: hemi-demi
  The Commodore, page 39
hemi-demi-semi
  The Letter of Marque, page 44
  The Nutmeg of Consolation, page 72
Meaning: cumulative repetitions of 'half'

Notes:

The prefixes all occur in various Greek and Latin derived forms; in music a hemi-demi-semiquaver is a 64thnote.

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Guide for the Perplexed — This article is based on information from the Guide for the Perplexed, edited by Anthony Gary Brown and based on the work of many contributors. As an aid to readers, the translations offered in Guide for the Perplexed are intended to be a literal as possible, and to follow as closely as possible the original word order.
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