sesquialter

From Latin sēsquialter, from sēsqui- (“a half and a”) + alter (“another, a second”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɛskwɪˈaltər/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛskwɪˈaltə/

sesquialter (not comparable)

1. (mathematics, archaic) Synonym of sesquialterate, 1½ times.
2. (music, obsolete) Synonym of sesquialteral, of or relating to 1½ notes.

sesquialter (plural sesquialters)

1. (music, obsolete) Synonym of sesquialtera, a 1½ note.
2. (music, obsolete) Synonym of sesquialtera, an organ stop.

• “sesquialter, adj. (and n.).”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• “sesquialter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From sēsqui- (“a half and a”) +‎ alter (“another, a second”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seːs.kʷiˈal.ter/, [s̠eːs̠kʷiˈäɫ̪t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ses.kwiˈal.ter/, [seskwiˈäl̪t̪er]

sēsquialter (feminine sēsquialtera, neuter sēsquialterum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal)

1. 1½ times, once and a half

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal).

• English: sesquialter
• Italian: sesquialtero

• “sesquialter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press