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ἁρμόζω

Pronunciation: /har.móz.dɔː/

“ἁρμόζω” is an Ancient Greek word. Its 12 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to fit together; join (for the purpose of construction, planks)
  2. to join together (words) (of a poet)
  3. to betroth (a girl to a man, a man to a woman)
  4. to apply (good order or discipline); to govern (a people); (of a Spartan) to be a harmost or governor (in a subject city), be ruled (by laws) be disciplined (by a teacher)
  5. to arrange, command
  6. to compose
  7. to harmonise (with each other), be brought into harmony or attunement (of a soul, with itself)
  8. to fit, suit, be adapted well for
  9. to tune (a certain musical mode)
  10. to tune (a lyre)
  11. to attune (the harmony of one's body)
  12. to correspond (to a god; of predictions, to later events)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *armód͏̌d͏̌ō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit, fix together”).

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