contrapunctus

English

Noun

contrapunctus (plural contrapuncti)

  1. (music) A fugue.
    • 2018, Guerino Mazzola, The Topos of Music II: Performance: Theory, Software, and Case Studies:
      The ambitus of the metrical weight profile increases towards the middle of the contrapunctus; minimal local meter length is 2.

Latin

Etymology

From contrā +‎ pūnctus, from the Medieval Latin expression pūnctus contrā pūnctum (literally “note against note”).

Noun

contrāpūnctus m (genitive contrāpūnctūs); fourth declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) counterpoint

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative contrāpūnctus contrāpūnctūs
genitive contrāpūnctūs contrāpūnctuum
dative contrāpūnctuī contrāpūnctibus
accusative contrāpūnctum contrāpūnctūs
ablative contrāpūnctū contrāpūnctibus
vocative contrāpūnctus contrāpūnctūs
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