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Used from 13c. in Old French. It represents the first syllable in Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">famulus</span>.</p></section><span></span></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to fa">Entries linking to <i>fa</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of gamut" href="/word/gamut#etymonline_v_1261">gamut<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>1520s, "low G, lowest note in the medieval musical scale" (the system of notation devised by Guido d'Arezzo), a contraction of Medieval Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">gamma ut</span>, from <span class="foreign notranslate">gamma</span>, the Greek letter, used in medieval music notation to indicate the note below the A which began the classical scale, + <span class="foreign notranslate">ut</span> (later replaced by <span class="foreign notranslate">do</span> for greater sonority), the low note on the six-note musical scale that took names from syllables sung to those notes in a Latin sapphic hymn for St. John the Baptist's Day:</p> <blockquote class="poetry"> <strong><span class="foreign notranslate">Ut</span></strong> <span class="foreign notranslate">queant laxis </span> <strong><span class="foreign notranslate">re</span></strong> <span class="foreign notranslate">sonare fibris</span> </blockquote> <blockquote class="poetry"> <strong>Mi</strong>ra gestorum <strong>fa</strong>muli tuorum, </blockquote> <blockquote class="poetry"> <strong>Sol</strong>ve pollutis <strong>la</strong>biis reatum, </blockquote> <blockquote class="poetry"> <span class="foreign notranslate">Sancte Iohannes</span>. </blockquote> <p>The <span class="foreign notranslate">ut</span> being the conjunction "that." <span class="foreign notranslate">Gamut</span> also was used for "range of notes of a voice or instrument" (1630s), also "the whole musical scale," hence the figurative sense of "entire scale or range" of anything, first recorded 1620s. When the modern octave scale was set early 16c., <span class="foreign notranslate">si</span> was added, changed to <a href="/word/ti" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of ti " class="crossreference notranslate">ti</a> in Britain and U.S. to keep the syllables as different from each other as possible. <span class="foreign notranslate">Ut</span> later was replaced by more sonorous <a href="/word/do" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of do " class="crossreference notranslate">do</a> (n.). See also <a href="/word/solmization" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of solmization " class="crossreference notranslate">solmization</a>.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of fa">Trends of <i>fa</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. 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